An arrest may be imminent in this weekend’s hit and run death of Utah man on Wendover Boulevard.
According to reports West Wendover police have impounded a tan 2005 GMC Sierra four door pickup believed to have been involved in the death of Terron Demtrices Hooper, 22, of West Valley City, Utah.
According to the crime scene diagram Hooper was struck while in the middle of Wendover Boulevard by a west bound vehicle near the Va Va Voom adult video/sexual products store at around 1 am early Sunday morning.
Hooper had been celebrating with friends at a night club in the Crossroads Plaza shopping mall. It was the young man’s 22nd birthday.
According to reports a passerby saw the body of Hooper lying in the street about 1:45 a.m., police wrote in a news release. Hooper appeared to have been hit by a vehicle, police wrote.
Hooper’s body was found in the middle of the road while his belongings were scattered up to 20 feet away.
The impounding of the vehicle was made Tuesday when it was identified as the one possibly striking Hooper in the Rainbow parking lot. It has since been sent to a crime lab for analysis.
With the vehicle impounded police have a fairly good idea on who may have been driving it at the time of the death.
According to Nevada law even if the death was an accident and even if the deceased was at least partly to blame fleeing after a car accident that results in bodily injury or death is a category B felony. The abridged legal 
definition of felony “hit and run” in Nevada states that, “The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in bodily injury to or the death of a person shall immediately stop his or her vehicle at the scene of the accident and exchange information and render aid.”
Penalties for leaving the scene of a car accident that caused death or injury to a third party include: two to fifteen years in prison, and a fine of $2,000 to $5,000, and possible license suspension or revocation.
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Investigators are asking the public for help finding the driver. Anyone with information may call police at 775-664-4393.
