Hit-Run Suspect Turns Himself In
A Canyon Country man who was a suspect in a Saturday hit-and-run accident that left a Newhall motorcyclist dead, turned himself in to the California Highway Patrol on Thursday.
Rick Sharp arrived at the Newhall CHP office after consulting an attorney, police said. He was booked for second-degree murder.
The Nissan Pathfinder that Sharp was driving allegedly collided with 20-year-old Norio Hozumi’s motorcycle shortly after midnight on the San Diego Freeway, just north of the Rinaldi Street exit, authorities said.
Hozumi, a Japanese citizen who was a student at CalArts in Valencia, was pronounced dead 40 minutes after the accident at Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, authorities said.
A witness to the accident picked up a license plate that had fallen off the Pathfinder, which led to Sharp, police said.
Authorities said that the vehicle Sharp was driving had been stolen from a new car dealer. They said he would also be charged with auto theft.
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