Suspected Driver Who Killed South Bay Woman In Hit-And-Run In Custody

LOS ANGELES, CA -- A woman was in custody Wednesday in connection with the hit-and-run death of a 64-year-old woman who was killed while en route to visit her mother in south Los Angeles.

Brenda Joyce Scott of Carson was fatally injured about 6 p.m. Feb. 24 at 95th and Hoover streets.

Iyerusalem Bihon, 36, was arrested Monday and booked on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter, according to the Los Angeles Police Department's South Traffic Division.

She is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday at the Compton courthouse, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

According to police, Scott was driving a Mercedes-Benz south in the 9500 block of Hoover Street when a silver Jeep Renegade ran a stop sign at 95th Street and slammed into her car. She died at the scene.

The driver of the Jeep got out of the vehicle and ran away, as did a passenger, police said.

Among those gathered at a news conference at the crime scene Wednesday morning was Scott's mother, Mary Graham.

"They've told me they wanted me to speak," Graham said. "How can I speak? What can I say? My child was going down the street to my house ... to see about her mama."

-- City News Service, photo via Shutterstock