LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – A 63-year-old man died almost two weeks after a hit-and-run crash early May in the Las Vegas Valley, police said.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department sent a media release Tuesday that they were notified that Robert Patrick Tully of Las Vegas died Sunday. Police previously told FOX5 that Tully was homeless.
The crash happened around 1:56 a.m. near Charleston and the US 95 on Sunday. Police said that a 20-year-old driver with a passenger, both from Utah, drove north on S. Sandhill Road approaching Hawaii Avenue.
Police said Tully was sleeping inside a makeshift tent on a desert area on the east side of Sandhill Road intersecting with Hawaii.
LVMPD said the driver drove off-road right and crashed with the pedestrian. After the collision, the vehicle stopped inside a business just north of the crash where several uninvolved motorists contacted the driver and passenger who were telling them to wait for police. After a discussion, police said both the driver and the pedestrian returned to their vehicle and fled the scene.
Yester Yancarlos Paz-Zavala, 20, was arrested shortly after the crash. Paz-Zavala told police he was in Las Vegas visiting a friend and had one beer before he left the friend’s house. Paz-Zavala said he got a flat tire and pulled over, and that’s when other motorists alerted him to the crash.
Paz-Zavala said “he was afraid for his safety” and left the area, according to an arrest report. Police tracked the car’s registration to the suspect’s mother, who then called Paz-Zavala and encouraged him to turn himself in.
Tully was transported to UMC where he was in critical condition until he died.
The death marked the 69th traffic-related fatality in LVMPD’s jurisdiction in 2024.
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