Police: Driver hits person mistaken in prior altercation
DENVER (KDVR) — Denver police arrested a man who they say intentionally hit a pedestrian following an altercation.
On Thursday just before 5:30 p.m., Denver Police Department officers were called to a crash between a driver and a pedestrian in the area of 14th Street and Larimer Street near Larimer Square.
On Friday morning, Denver police said 55-year-old Michael Knight was arrested on charges of second-degree assault in relation to the crash.
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According to an affidavit obtained by FOX31, Knight was driving a black BMW eastbound on 14th Street. Officers looked at HALO footage from the area and saw a white male wearing a white shirt use his hand to smash the driver’s side mirror of the BMW. Officers said the man was riding on a skateboard.
Denver police did not say what led to the altercation between the skateboarder and Knight.
After that, police said Knight intentionally drove the BMW the wrong way down 14th Street and followed a white man wearing a white colored sweatshirt on a scooter. Knight allegedly hit the victim with his car.
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Currently, the victim is on a breathing tube, police said.
After looking at the footage, police confirmed that the man who hit Knight’s mirror was a different person than the victim who was hit by the BMW.
The investigation is ongoing.
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