Woman arrested in fatal hit-and-run on Billy Graham Parkway 5 months after wreck
Police on Thursday arrested a 43-year-old Charlotte woman in connection with a fatal hit and run in June on Billy Graham Parkway.
Leah Marie Randall was arrested without incident by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police South Division officers and charged with felony hit-and-run and misdemeanor death by vehicle, police said Thursday night.
Randall also was served with two outstanding warrants for driving while impaired and probation violation, according to a CMPD news release.
Police charged Randall in the death of 63-year-old Lester Wayne Anderson. He was driving a Buick Enclave SUV on June 20 that was hit by the driver of a 2004 Honda Accord, The Charlotte Observer reported at the time of the wreck.
Randall was jailed on $5,000 bail Thursday on the charges in connection with the fatal hit and run, jail records show.
Police are not saying why it took so long to identify Randall as the Honda’s driver and obtain arrest warrants against her.
About a week after the wreck, CMPD reported finding the Honda but not the driver, and asked the public for help in the case, the Observer previously reported.
Just before 8 p.m. June 20, the Honda, heading eastbound, “was unable to maintain its lane” and hit the Buick SUV in the lane beside it, according to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department news release at the time.
The impact caused Anderson to veer left off the road, cross the grass median and hit a Mazda 3S sedan head-on, police said in the release. That collision sent the Buick into the next lane and “into the path” of a Hyundai Sonata mid-size car, which hit the passenger side of the Buick, according to the CMPD release.
Anderson died at the hospital on July 8, according to CMPD.