CHP Has Person Of Interest In Fatal Novato Hit-And-Run; Marin Coroner Releases Sketch Of Victim

MARIN COUNTY, CA – California Highway Patrol officials said Monday morning that a Hayward resident is a person of interest in a hit-and-run collision that killed a man along southbound U.S. Highway 101 in Novato on Thursday.

"The person has been interviewed and we believe we have the (responsible) individual," CHP Officer Andrew Barclay said.

An arrest has not been made as of Monday morning, according to Barclay.

CHP officers said Saturday they had located and took into evidence the vehicle involved in the fatal hit-and-run after receiving numerous calls, emails and messages from concerned citizens.

Last week, CHP officials said the vehicle was believed to be a metallic silver 2006 to 2013 Nissan Versa with damage to the right side of the vehicle.

A big-rig driver spotted the victim's body in the road between the Atherton Avenue on-ramp and the slow lanes of southbound Highway 101 around 1 a.m. Thursday.

The Marin County Coroner’s Office on Monday released an image to help identify the man.

The victim is described as a 5-foot-10 white man in his mid 50s, 200 pounds with hazel eyes, salt-and-pepper hair that is about shoulder length in the back, Chief Deputy Coroner Darrell Harris said.

Harris said the man had gray stubble beard growth and thick bushy eyebrows, and possibly an overbite. He had no scars or tattoos on his body. He was wearing a maroon long-sleeved, extra large Hanes Beefy T-shirt, brown carpenter/painter-style pants, a brown leather belt and black slip-on loafer-style shoes, Harris said.

The “digital sketch” of the unidentified man was created by digitally converting a photograph into a black-and-white drawing.

Anyone who recognizes the man in the sketch is asked to call the Marin County Sheriff's Office at 415-473-6043 or email coroner@marinsheriff.org.

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Bay City News contributed to this report.

Image courtesy of Marin County Coroner’s Office