Posted on 11/18/2014 8:44:12 PM PST by smokingfrog
A construction worker charged with murder for allegedly hitting and killing a 14-year-old boy crossing the street near San Leandro last week has an extensive criminal history, according to court records. In addition to the murder charge, 34-year-old Sonny Anderson is charged with evading an officer causing death, evading an officer against traffic and leaving the scene of the crash at 6:19 p.m. last Tuesday at East 14th Street and Ashland Avenue, prosecutors said.
Anderson was arrested in Newark on Wednesday on unrelated warrants but was not booked on the crash charges until Monday. He has a long criminal history dating back to 1999, when he was convicted of two counts of animal cruelty for breaking into and mutilating several animals in a Hayward petting zoo.
A sheriff's deputy initially tried to stop the maroon 2001 Saturn later connected to Anderson for driving recklessly with a broken taillight near the corner of East 14th Street and 164th Avenue last Tuesday, but the driver refused to stop and ran through stop signs and red lights trying to evade the deputy, according to court documents filed by sheriff's Sgt.Kenneth Gemmell.
The driver was going 60 mph, well over the 25 or 30 mph speed limit on the streets there, then drifted into the opposite lanes going the wrong way on East 14th Street, nearly causing two head-on collisions, Gemmell wrote.
The deputy lost sight of the Saturn, but then saw it fishtailing on East 14th Street just past Ashland Avenue. It had just hit 14-year-old Ivan Cruz of San Leandro as he was crossing the street in a marked crosswalk riding a Razor scooter.
Ivan was thrown 80 feet onto the road while the Saturn driver kept going.
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“Anderson was arrested in Newark on Wednesday on unrelated warrants but was not booked on the crash charges until Monday. He has a long criminal history dating back to 1999, when he was convicted of two counts of animal cruelty for breaking into and mutilating several animals in a Hayward petting zoo. “
Well... at least he didn’t consider human life of less value than animal life.
No, hang him from a tall oak.
Prayers for the victim and his loved ones.
I take it that this happened somewhere near Newark, New Jersey.
San Francisco Bay Area, California
I’ve seen it written many times that cruelty to animals committed when young is a serious red flag that the abuser in question is a psychopath in the making.
I believe he was arrested in New Jersey but the hit and run was in California. He should have been doing time in prison.
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