South Bay Woman Arrested For Murder, Felony Hit-and Run

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA – A San Jose woman was arrested on suspicion of murder Wednesday morning, the day after she allegedly intentionally ran over a woman she knew on a Campbell street, police said.

The altercation was reported around 7:15 a.m. Tuesday when police received calls reporting an auto-pedestrian collision and a disturbance at North Leigh Avenue and Montemar Way, on the border with San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood, according to Campbell police.

Police found a 23-year-old woman lying in the roadway on Montemar Way with major injuries. She was taken to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, where she died later on Tuesday.

Witnesses told police a woman had fled the scene in a gray, four-door vehicle.

Police identified the suspect as 23-year-old Elsie de la Rosa, a "known associate" of the victim, whose name has not yet been released by the Santa Clara County medical examiner's office.

Neither of the women had an association with the neighborhood where the altercation took place. Police believe they had been in the same vehicle and arrived in the area by chance.

Campbell police arrested de la Rosa in what they believe to be the suspect vehicle around 11:50 a.m. Wednesday at MacArthur Avenue and Pfeffer Lane, a block north of Valley Medical Center.

De la Rosa was booked into jail on suspicion of murder and felony hit-and-run, and is being held without bail. Her arraignment is scheduled for Friday afternoon.

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--Bay City News/Image via Campbell PD