STOCKTON, CA - The suspect in a fatal hit and run attack was caught in Southern California Wednesday evening.
Officer Pete Smith said Ausha McDuff-Brown was taken into custody with the help of the U.S. Marshalls Service. Stockton investigators were tipped off that McDuff-Brown was on a Greyhound bus bound for Southern California and a marshall's fugitive apprehension team was at the EL Monte Greyhound bus station to detain the suspect.
Smith said the car McDuff-Brown was driving, a Ford Focus, has not been found and investigators were still looking for it.
Stockton detectives are currently coordinating McDuff-Brown's return to Stockton where she will most likely face charges in the death of 3-year-old Ruben Ramirez.
Police said McDuff-Brown was involved in an argument with a group of people outside of a small grocery store on Madison Avenue Monday afternoon.
Witnesses told police that McDuff-Brown got behind the wheel of her car and attempted to hit a person she was seen arguing with, but instead struck and killed Ramirez.
Ramirez's mother Deleshia Mason said McDuff-Brown continued to drive forward after she had hit Ramirez and pinned him up against the store.
"I kept telling her 'you just hit my baby, move, move' but she just kept pressing the gas," Mason said. "I tried to reach my arm in to get the car in reverse, but I couldn't open the door."
McDuff-Brown's parents said Wednesday outside of her apartment on Kingsley Avenue that they were praying for Mason and Ramirez and desperately wanted their daughter to turn herself into police.
"She's a loving girl," McDuff-Brown's father Phillip Brown said. "She had everything going for her. I don't know what happened."
The Browns said they hired a lawyer for their daughter.
Author: Leigh Paynter
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