Retired 76-year-old schoolteacher Darlene Scalf was visiting Oakland from Louisiana when she was killed by a hit-and-run driver the morning of July 13, and the driver was allegedly intoxicated and is now facing murder charges.

In mid-July, retired 76-year-old Louisiana schoolteacher Darlene Scalf was visiting Oakland to see family, though her trip was tragically cut short when she was killed in a hit-and-run car crash at Fruitvale Avenue and East 27th Street in East Oakland. As seen in the video below, Scalf was hit by a white Toyota Tacoma pickup truck while making a perfectly legal pedestrian crossing at 8:40 am on a Sunday morning.

Within hours, police arrested 40-year-old Oakland resident Jeremiah Mendoza at a gas station not far away on 35th Avenue, having tracked him there using traffic surveillance cameras. And when they arrested him, police say Mendoza smelled of alcohol, was slurring his words, and had an open container of beer in his car.  

Now the Bay Area News Group reports that Mendoza is being charged with murder by the Alameda County DA’s Office. He’s also being charged with DUI causing injury, driving with a .08% BAC or higher, leaving the scene of an accident, and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated with a prior conviction.

And that “prior conviction” is actually two prior convictions. Per the Bay Area News Group, Mendoza had additional misdemeanor DUI convictions in both September 2012 and April 2013. These were from more than ten years ago, but they are still prior DUI convictions.

Mendoza is currently being held without bail at Santa Rita County Jail, and is scheduled to appear in court to enter a plea on Thursday, August 7.

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Image: A police car parked in the city. (Getty Images)