Just two months before the victim in a fatal Labor Day weekend hit and run Terron Demtices Hooper was killed in West Wendover he was facing legal problems of his own.
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Hooper was killed in the early morning hours of September 4, almost two months to the day after he was arrested on various drug charges in Salt Lake City.
According to the Salt lake County Jail Hooper was arrested for various drug related charges including public intoxication, possession of drug paraphernalia, misdemeanor possession of marijuana, and a $25,000 outstanding warrant issued by Utah County for a 2008 marijuana charge.
In a telephone interview with the High Desert Advocate Friday, a woman who claimed to be Hooper’s mother said that while her son liked to smoke marijuana he did not deal the drug.
“He was a good kid,” she said. “And the only reason for the $25,000 bail was because he failed to appear in court.”
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According to the Salt Lake County Jail, Hooper spent 20 days behind bars before he was transfered to the Utah County Jail to address the 2008 drug charge and the $25,000 bail warrant.
According to reports West Wendover police last week impounded a tan 2005 GMC Sierra four door pickup believed to have been involved in the death of Hooper, 22, of West Valley City, Utah.
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West Wendover police sergeant David Wiskerchen said Tuesday that a possible arrest or a request for a warrant could be made by Friday. That prediction came to naught Friday when forensic technicians found no evidence that the impounded vehicle was involved in the crime.
According to reports the investigation is literally back to square one and without a significant amount of luck the chances of finding either the vehicle or the killer are slim.
The White Pine County Sheriff’s Department for example has been looking for a suspect in a hit and run that occurred during the early evening last December that critically injured a pedestrian.
“If the vehicle hasn’t been significantly damaged and can flee the scene you pretty much have to rely on luck,” said Sheriff Dan Watts. “Or on the perp or someone close to the perp turning them in.”
According to the crime scene diagram Hooper was struck while in the middle of Wendover Boulevard by a west bound vehicle near the Va Va Voom adult video/sexual products store at around 1 am early Sunday morning.
Hooper had been celebrating with friends at a night club in the Crossroads Plaza shopping mall. It was the young man’s 22nd birthday.
According to reports a passerby saw the body of Hooper lying in the street about 1:45 a.m., police wrote in a news release. Hooper appeared to have been hit by a vehicle, police wrote.
Hooper’s body was found in the middle of the road while his belongings were scattered up to 20 feet away.
According to Nevada law even if the death was an accident and even if the deceased was at least partly to blame fleeing after a car accident that results in bodily injury or death is a category B felony. The abridged legal definition of felony “hit and run” in Nevada states that, “The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in bodily injury to or the death of a person shall immediately stop his or her vehicle at the scene of the accident and exchange information and render aid.”
Penalties for leaving the scene of a car accident that caused death or injury to a third party include: two to fifteen years in prison, and a fine of $2,000 to $5,000, and possible license suspension or revocation.
Investigators are asking the public for help finding the driver. Anyone with information may call police at 775-664-4393.
it is nice that you are reporting on my nephews death but i found your reference of his legal problems a bit concerning. I really don’t care what my nephew did he was my nephew and the person who hit him should be brought to justice. the reference to his legal problems can be construde that you feel like he got what he deserved. This is not the case he was no saint but he was a good nephew, brother, uncle, cousin and son. He helped in taking care of his two sisters that was living with him at home. He also was a big role in his neices lifes and he has the right to justice.