Walmart manager killed skateboarder with Ram pickup truck then falsified time card to cover it up, made it look like he was still on the clock when crash happened: DA

A Walmart manager successful Nevada killed a skateboarder with a Ram pickup truck past falsified his clip paper to screen up the hit-and-run and marque it look similar helium was inactive astatine enactment erstwhile it happened, according to prosecutors.

Elijah Malone, 26, is presently charged with failing to halt astatine the country of an mishap that helium allegedly caused connected the evening of June 4. Police accidental helium struck 28-year-old Ivan Aguilera with a Ram pickup motortruck astir 10:30 p.m. arsenic Aguilera was riding a skateboard on the broadside of North Oso Blanca Road successful Las Vegas.

"On June 5, 2026, astatine astir 2:37 p.m., a witnesser called constabulary to study they had discovered a quality assemblage connected the roadside northbound of the intersection of North Oso Blanca Road and West Montecito Pointe Drive," the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department says successful a press release. "Emergency Medical unit responded … and determined that the idiosyncratic was beyond aesculapian resuscitation."

Evidence collected astatine the scene, on with a witnesser statement, indicates that Malone was driving southbound connected Oso Blanca Road erstwhile helium struck Aguilera.

"The pedestrian was projected southbound onto the eastbound enarthrosis of the roadway," the LVMPD merchandise says. "Neither the operator nor the conveyance remained connected scene. The Ram pickup was aboriginal located."

During Malone's archetypal tribunal quality connected Friday, prosecutors said that the clang sent Aguilera's assemblage flying much than 100 feet from the roadway, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Investigators traced the Ram motortruck to Malone's brother, who owns it, the Review-Journal reports.

According to prosecutors, Malone turned himself successful aft attempting to falsify his Walmart clip paper to marque it look helium was moving astatine the clip of the crash. Malone's lawyer admitted successful tribunal Friday that helium was, successful fact, progressive but said Malone stopped and flashed the truck's lights and looked astir afterward, but couldn't find a victim.

"The detective indicated to america that my lawsuit is not astatine fault, suggesting that the deceased, unfortunately, whitethorn person been skateboarding successful a mode that was risky," said defence lawyer Warren Geller, according to the Review-Journal.

Geller told the tribunal that Malone works arsenic a manager astatine a section Walmart and helium risked losing his occupation if his bail were acceptable excessively high, section CBS affiliate KLAS reports. Malone's bail was reduced from $200,000 to $100,000 and his driving privileges were restricted to traveling for enactment only.

Malone could look a situation condemnation of 8 to 20 years if convicted.

"There's a photograph from the clang showing a footwear successful the mediate of the road," Aguilera's brother, Carlos Aguilera Jr., told the Review-Journal. He said that Aguilera was known to thrust his skateboard to a adjacent skate park.

"If [Malone] was flashing his headlights, helium would person seen that," household person and lawyer Richard Bryant said. "His nonaccomplishment to telephone 911 does not align with the relationship presented by his attorneys."

Aguilera Jr. added, "It's not just that this feline tin spell home, provender his children and beryllium with his wife. I don't person a member anymore. A beingness was taken."