Update: An arrest was made in the case, and the people who died were identified. Click here for latest article.
A bicyclist suffered a fatal fall when she was slapped by a man leaning from a minivan — and the passenger himself was killed when he fell from the moving vehicle, Las Vegas police say.
The incident occurred around 7:25 a.m. Sunday on Hollywood Boulevard, a thoroughfare in a residential area at the east edge of Las Vegas.
Witnesses told police that several vehicles were driving recklessly and that a passenger in one of them leaned out the window and tried to hit two pedestrians on the sidewalk. He missed them, and then took a swipe at a bicyclist in the bike lane. That time, he connected.
The bicyclist was thrown to the ground. At the same time, the passenger fell out the minivan’s window and struck his head on a light post.
The van’s driver did not stop. The bicyclist and passenger were pronounced dead at the scene.
The bicyclist was said to be a woman in her 50s, and her attacker a man about 20 years old.
Police are seeking the van’s driver.
