Police arrested an Indianapolis man this weekend after they say he left the scene of an accident that killed a bicyclist.
Derrick L. Scott, 3835 Cherry Glen Drive, 32, was arrested on charges of reckless homicide, leaving the scene of an accident causing death and operating a motor vehicle while being a habitual traffic violator causing death, all felonies.
About 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Greenwood police were dispatched to the 2800 block of S. Emerson Ave., where a pedestrian had been struck by a car. The caller found a man on the side of the rural road, south of Pushville Road, after Scott went to their house a mile away and told them he thought he had hit someone on Emerson Avenue, according to a Greenwood Police Department report.
A woman who lived at the house drove to the scene of the accident, where she found 29-year-old Alec Guyette, of Franklin, dead, and called 911.
Scott and Guyette were both southbound on Emerson when Scott struck Guyette’s bicycle from behind, according to the accident report. Guyette was thrown 71 feet from the point of impact, the accident report said.
When police arrived, Scott was still at the caller’s house, but fled when he realized what had happened and that police were on their way, the police report said.
Police tracked down the 1996 Cadillac DeVille Scott was driving, which had right front corner damage and significant passenger side windshield damage. The car was taken as evidence, according to the police report. The car’s lights were defective, according to the accident report.
Scott had fled to his apartment on the southside of Indianapolis, but refused to answer the door when police arrived, at one point turning up the volume on his TV to drown out their commands, the police report said.
Police secured a search warrant and called in the SWAT team, which entered Scott’s apartment and arrested him. He would not answer any questions about what happened, according to the report.
Scott was taken to the Johnson County jail where he is held on $31,800 bond.
