A 22-year-old man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of vehicular homicide after law enforcement found a body in his car during a Commerce City traffic stop in January, police said.
A Colorado State Patrol trooper pulled Brandon Joseph Sargent-Zuniga over for speeding on Jan. 16 and found a woman dead in the passenger seat, according to a news release from the .
Investigators believe Sargent-Zuniga was racing down Interstate 270 earlier that night when he crashed into a parked RV, . The man’s passenger, a woman who has not been publicly identified, was injured in the crash.
Sargent-Zuniga fled the scene, went home, switched vehicles and tried to take the woman to the hospital, but she died from her injuries before they arrived, police said. That’s when the trooper pulled Sargent-Zuniga over and found her body.
Sargent-Zuniga faces two felony charges: vehicular homicide by reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident involving death, according to Adams County court records. A warrant was issued Friday for Sargent-Zuniga’s arrest on those charges, and the man was arrested Saturday, court records show.
He will next appear in court on Wednesday for a setting hearing, according to court records. As of Tuesday afternoon, he was being held at the Adams County Detention Center in Brighton on a $50,000 bail, .
This is a developing story and may be updated.
