A driver rammed into a group of people at a children’s birthday party outside of Washington DC late on Saturday, killing a woman in her 30s and injuring at least 14 others, eight of whom were children.
In a statement released by the Bladensburg police department in Maryland, they announced that the driver of the striking vehicle had turned himself in and had been identified as a 66 year-old man from the surrounding area.
“The hit and run vehicle collision has been updated to a fatality,” they announced in an update on Sunday.
Officers were called to the scene shortly after 10pm, where the vehicle had struck several people gathered outside a home for a child’s birthday party. Eleven people were taken to local hospitals, including children ranging in age from two to nine.
The driver fled the scene of the incident on foot but eventually handed himself in to authorities.
In a statement on social media, the Prince George’s county fire and emergency medical services department confirmed that one woman and child had been transported in critical condition.
The police confirmed on Sunday that one of the women being treated had succumbed to her injuries, and identified her as 31-year-old Ashley Hernandez Gutierrez.
