The driver in an April South Miami hit-and-run accident that put a University of Miami student in a coma was apprehended Tuesday in New York, police said.
Luis Felipe Moya Lopez, 24, was taken into custody Tuesday morning in a New York apartment building, after an investigation by South Miami Police, Miami Police’s Fugitive Task Force and the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force, South Miami Police said.
Authorities previously identified Moya Lopez as the driver of a silver Mercedes-Benz E-320 that hit pedestrian Eliza Gresh on April 27.
After the crash at South Dixie Highway and SW 57th Avenue the Mercedes-Benz continued driving north on South Dixie Highway, while the 19-year-old student was left laying in the road with severe head trauma and extensive bodily injuries, South Miami Police said Tuesday.
Gresh was taken to Kendall Regional Trauma Center, where he was in a medically-induced coma before his condition was updated to fair.
Moya Lopez is awaiting extradition to Miami, South Miami Police said.
A tip from a Hialeah body shop owner led police to Zoila Moyer, the owner of the Mercedes, who was arrested for filing a false insurance claim, according to police. But her son was the driver that left the scene, they said.
