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DCSO Searches For Hit & Run Suspect

UPDATE (4 p.m.) -- The Sheriff's Office says deputies were able to determine the full license plate and tracked down the registered owner. Deputies cited 89-year-old Richard Bassett, of Sisters, fo Failure to Perform the Duties of a Driver to Injured Persons and Assault IV. 

 

SISTERS, OR -- Deschutes County deputies are searching for the driver who hit a person in Sisters Sunday afternoon. The incident was caught on a nearby surveillance camera. Click HERE to watch the video from DCSO's Twitter page. 

Investigators say at about 1 p.m. Sunday, a maroon GMC Yukon struck a pedestrian standing next to a parked vehicle on North Pine Street. The suspect car continued north and turned east on W. Main Street. The victim was treated at the scene for minor injuries. 

The SUV has damage to the passenger side front quarter panel, along with an Oregon license plate that includes "ZV;" the rest of the plate is not clear. 

Anyone with information is asked to contact nonemergency dispatch at 541-693-6911 and reference DCSO case # 23-1272.

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