Charge says Brooklyn Center man fled scene where he ran over and killed person lying in the road

A criminal vehicular homicide charge filed Monday alleges that a 20-year-old man drove off despite another driver telling him he just ran over someone in the road in Brooklyn Center.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Monroe C. Edwards of Brooklyn Center in connection with the incident that occurred about 10 p.m. on Sept. 19 in the 6600 block of N. Dupont Avenue.

"Edwards' current whereabouts are unknown," police Cmdr. Garett Flesland said late Monday morning.

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office identified the victim Monday as 64-year-old Diodoro Dimas Salgado. Police said Dimas Salgado lived near the scene of the incident.

The state Department of Public Safety said that Edwards was driving despite having a revoked license.

Witnesses told police about hearing a loud noise and seeing a car leave the scene. Officers tracked fluid that had leaked out of the car to a hotel less than a mile to the southwest.

Video surveillance of the hotel showed Edwards in the parking lot and "closely examining the vehicle, even getting under it," the complaint read.

A woman told police she swerved and drove around someone down in the road, then pulled over and called her husband. While she was on the phone, she saw a speeding car run over the person.

Edwards pulled over next to the woman's vehicle, according to the complaint, and said to her, "What was that?" She told him it was a person, and he replied, "No, it was a bag."

The woman "told our detectives that she saw the person moving, so we believe the victim was alive before Edwards struck him," Flesland said.

The next day, police located the car at Edwards' home and saw bodily evidence on its underside.

Edwards told police in a phone conversation that he ran over a speed bump and didn't learn it was a person until the next morning.