HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – A woman has been pronounced dead after she was reportedly hit by a vehicle in northwest Harris County Sunday night.
According to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, a Ford Explorer was said to have left the roadway while traveling at a high rate of speed on W Cypress Forest near Cypresswood around 9 p.m.
When the driver veered off the road, he allegedly hit a woman who was walking in the area and then crashed in a nearby home. Gonzalez said the vehicle pinned the woman against a wall.
The victim has since been identified as 44-year-old Carolee Dwer. According to friends, Dwer was visiting from out of state, and it was her first day here.
It’s unnerving, it’s unnerving she was laying there dead when minutes ago she was walking across the street,” said the homeowner, Jerome Portle.
No one inside the home was injured.
The driver was identified as 33-year-old Joshua Ivie.
Josiah Cantu said he was driving by with his family and pulled over to see if anyone needed help.
“The driver got out of the vehicle, he grabbed something out of the passenger side of the vehicle, and I tried to speak with him to see if he was ok and he started taking off from the scene of the crime. He told me to back up off of him and brandished a weapon,” Cantu said.
Authorities said he fled the scene following the crash but was later arrested.
Ivie has been charged with FSRA (death) and Felon in Possession of a Weapon and is currently in the Harris County Jail.