A 27-year-old woman who allegedly drove a pickup truck into a Palm Springs home, injuring a woman inside, then fleeing, was charged Wednesday with felony hit and run causing an injury and misdemeanor resisting a peace officer.
Minica Starr Murrell of Palm Springs was arrested at Bon Air Drive and Corazon Avenue, about a half-hour after Sunday's roughly 2:10 p.m. in the 300 block of Rosa Parks Drive. Murrell, locked up on $75,000 bail, may be arraigned after 1:30 p.m. today at the Larson Justice Center in Indio. Palm Springs police Sgt. Harvey Reed said a GMC pickup slammed into the front of the home, and a 50-year-old woman suffered leg and shoulder injuries.
Murrell fled but officers found her nearby, Reed said.
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"As officers approached the pickup, the driver ran from the vehicle. Officers chased the driver on foot across several streets and arrested her in the backyard of a nearby residence," the sergeant said.
She was "driving at an unsafe speed and made an unsafe turn prior to the collision," but alcohol and drugs were not factors, Reed said.
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The name of the injured woman was withheld, and there was no word on her condition.
– City News Service.
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