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A man accused of being nan driver successful a deadly Maryland hit-and-run is an illegal immigrant who was precocious released from national prison.
Gilver Zelaya-Diaz, 42, was arrested past week successful relationship to a hit-and-run accident that claimed nan life of 26-year-old Jacques Price successful Montgomery County Maryland, earlier this month, according to a property merchandise from nan Montgomery County Department of Police.
Prosecutors opportunity Zelaya-Diaz, who has arsenic galore arsenic 8 different aliases, entered nan state illegally successful 2019, according to a study from NBC 4, while a Montgomery County connection of xharges notes that he had a "history of charges for driving connected a suspended license, driving without a license, speeding, equipped robbery, second-degree assault, and possessing controlled vulnerable substances pinch an intent to distribute."
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Gilver Zelaya-Diaz (Montgomery County Department of Police)
He was released from national situation successful July 2023, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons records, and was connected probation astatine nan clip of nan incident, nan NBC 4 study notes.
Price, who was a begetter and uncle, was riding a skateboard astatine nan clip he was struck by a conveyance that fled nan scene, according to nan connection of charges. Zelaya-Diaz was capable to elude officers for complete a week, but was arrested aft investigators utilized licence sheet databases and conveyance records to constrictive nan hunt to his vehicle.
Noting his criminal history and nan truth that Zelaya-Diaz had grounded to look astatine 5 erstwhile tribunal dates, prosecutors asked that he beryllium held until trial. He remains successful custody astatine nan Montgomery County Correctional facility, nationalist records show.
The conveyance allegedly driven by Gilver Zelaya-Diaz during a deadly hit-and-run successful Montgomery County, Maryland. (Montgomery County Department of Police)
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The work of police to way down Zelaya-Diaz was praised by Price's father, Marcus Glivings, who told NBC 4 that Zelaya-Diaz is simply a "bad guy."
"It doesn’t alteration things, but we are grateful he was apprehended," he said.
The separator wall on El Paso, Texas. (Kelly Laco/Fox News Digital)
Meanwhile, a memorial remains astatine nan segment of nan crash, wherever Price’s neighbour nailed a achromatic skateboard to a telephone canvass pinch nan day nan begetter was killed.
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"Ever since it happened, I deliberation nan very adjacent day, 1 of nan neighbors nailed that skateboard up location and past flowers and candles and pictures," Glivings said. "He didn’t merit it, he didn’t merit it. He was minding his ain business."
