Responding officers found Thomas Sawyer in the middle of the west-facing lanes of Mill Plain at the northwest corner of the intersection, the affidavit said. He suffered severe head and body injuries, reported the police and was taken to the PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, where he later died.
Witnesses told police that Sawyer was on the zebra crossing on the east side of the intersection when the SUV heading west hit him. The SUV drove west and did not return to the scene, the court records say.
Video surveillance from a nearby gas station and C-Tran bus stops captured the GMC Envoy escaping with damage to the passenger’s fender. According to court records, the police also found the passenger mirror and other parts of the vehicle at the scene. The police released the vehicle information to the public and received a series of leads.
On September 3, police searched the area around the scene of the accident and found the suspicious vehicle parked in the front yard of a house on the 1100 block on East 40th Avenue. They contacted residents, who said the vehicle belonged to their roommate Anderson, the affidavit read. She wasn’t home at the time.
On September 10, police contacted Anderson’s father and brother, both of whom said they admitted to being the driver in the fatal accident. Her brother said she told him, “She drove around the corner, it was too light, she couldn’t see, she didn’t know what hit her until she reached the house,” the affidavit reads.
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