Deported man faces new federal charges after fatal Charlotte hit-and-run
A man deported from Texas years ago is facing new immigration charges after being charged in a fatal Charlotte hit and run.
Luis Alberto Miranda-Vilchis, 36, was arrested and charged in county court in a Beatties Ford Road crash that killed 58-year-old James Leon Hall in October. On Monday, he appeared for the first time in federal court on a charge of reentering the country after being deported.
Miranda-Vilchis hit Hall, who was walking outside a crosswalk, and fled the scene in his Chevrolet SUV on Oct. 1, according to a news release from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. Three weeks later, a grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina found probable cause that he came back to the United States after being deported from Texas twice in 2020.
Federal court documents say Miranda-Vilchis agreed to remain in the Mecklenburg County Detention Center when he appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge James Mazzone this week.
This story was originally published March 25, 2026 at 3:52 PM.
