A Fort Bragg woman suspected in the hit-and-run death of a skateboarder last summer in Mendocino surrendered on Monday, the California Highway Patrol reported.
Gina R. Bean, 41, was booked into Mendocino County Jail on suspicion of hit-and-run causing injury or death. She was released on bail Monday evening.
Bean is accused of driving the vehicle that hit 21-year-old Calum Hunnicutt (also known as Calum Pulido) on the night of July 18 as he rode his skateboard across Highway 1 at Little Lake Road.
Though CHP investigators impounded a Toyota pickup truck the day after the crash and said at that time that they had identified “a person of interest,” a warrant for Bean was not issued until Wednesday, Nov. 27.
CHP officers spoke Wednesday with Bean’s father in Fort Bragg, and five days later she turned herself in at the Mendocino County Jail.
Also on Wednesday, a warrant was issued for Ricky F. Santos, 36, suspected of being a “co-conspirator in the concealment and destruction of evidence” in Hunnicutt’s death. Santos was arrested that day in Mendocino.
Santos was found guilty of a misdemeanor traffic violation last year for running his Ford Mustang into a horse and rider at the 2017 Fort Bragg Christmas parade and then fleeing the scene.
