Stolen truck slams into brothers bicycling to work, killing one, California police say

Someone fleeing in a stolen pickup truck ran over two Los Angeles brothers bicycling to work, killing one, in the Koreatown neighborhood, California police told news outlets.

“It’s sad, it’s truly heartbreaking,” Capt. Anthony Otero of the Los Angeles Police Department told KTTV. “Two individuals trying to go to work and make a living and their day starts and ends like this.”

The crash was reported at 3:40 a.m. Tuesday, April 26, in the 900 block of South Mariposa Avenue, police told KTLA. Officers responding to a report of a stolen vehicle found the two brothers in the street.

They had been hit by a white pickup truck when a thief took off in it from nearby Olympic Boulevard, police told KNBC. The driver fled the crash and has not been arrested.

Medics pronounced one brother dead at the scene, police told KTLA. The other was taken to a hospital in stable condition.

Police are examining security camera footage from the neighborhood in hopes of identifying the driver, KNBC reported.

This story was originally published April 26, 2022 at 4:44 PM with the headline "Stolen truck slams into brothers bicycling to work, killing one, California police say."