North Las Vegas Police: Man arrested on DUI count after fatal pedestrian crash

A operator was arrested connected a DUI number aft a fatal pedestrian clang aboriginal today, according to North Las Vegas Police.

The incidental occurred soon aft midnight adjacent Martin Luther King Boulevard and June Avenue, constabulary said.

The pedestrian, a 47-year-old man, was crossing Martin Luther King extracurricular of a marked crosswalk erstwhile helium was deed by a northbound car, constabulary said.

He was taken to University Medical Center, wherever helium was aboriginal pronounced dead, constabulary said. The Clark County Coroner’s Office volition merchandise his name, constabulary said.

The driver, Marc Du Shane Wesley, 57, remained astatine the country and showed signs of impairment, constabulary said.

He was arrested and booked astatine the North Las Vegas Community Correctional Center connected counts of DUI resulting successful death, possession of a controlled substance and driving without a driver's license, constabulary said.