Newly released video shows the moments after a car went off the SR 599 overpass and onto Interstate 5, killing one person.
A 30-year-old man accused of a deadly hit and run pleaded not guilty to several charges on March 24 at the King County Regional Justice Center in Kent.
In the body camera video, a trooper says he arrived after seeing the crash while going the other direction before anyone had the chance to call 911. The trooper jumps in with people who were trying to help a person who was hurt in the car that fell onto the interstate.
“Going to start aid we have a late teens early twenties,” the trooper radios. “I know, I know it hurts,” he tells the man as he and Good Samaritans help get him out of the car.
Witnesses helped troopers evaluate the rare situation of a car falling off one highway to another.
“Did you hear about the guy above too?” One asks a trooper.
“There’s a guy?” the trooper responds.
“They came off the ramp here. There’s people up there with an injured guy from the accident,” the witness replies.
That man turned out to be Daud Mohamud, the person accused of driving the car and causing the accident. Troopers say he fled when they tried to talk to him.
“My guy is acting real sketchy,” one trooper said of Mohamud on the body camera recording. “He got up, took off, and when I caught up to him, he said he needed to vomit. Went towards the bushes, got his wallet and tosses it. He’s saying, ‘my friend was driving, my friend was driving.’”
“Who runs from a crash? Only the people who caused it, usually,” the trooper said.
Once cuffed and in a patrol car, troopers question Mohamud about inconsistencies in his story, namely who was driving and why Mohamud’s shoes were in the front seat.
“You had to be in the driver’s seat at one point,” the trooper asks him.
“No I left the shoes there,” he answers.
“You just told me you were wearing black crocs and there’s black crocs right there,” the trooper says.
“I have other shoes in the car, sir,” Mohamud responds.
Court documents and police reports showed that Mohamud was driving on a suspended license at the time of the crash, and was supposed to have an ignition interlock, but police were not able to find one in his vehicle the day of the crash.
One person was killed in the incident, according to the Washington State Patrol report: 26-year-old Abdiqadir Ahmed. Ahmed’s sister, Amina, was in court for the arraignment.
“I have so much hurt, I am just so confused,” Amina said, speaking to the media after the court proceedings that were delayed because Mohamud’s attorney ran late. Because of the delay, Amina had to sit next to the man accused of killing her brother.
As the court proceedings continued, she became distraught over the trauma.
“I can’t imagine how can somebody do something like that,” Amina said.
The vehicle that Ahmed was riding in plowed onto the interstate, causing a deadly crash, and the prosecution says Mohamud was the driver.
Police reports claim Mohamud ran away from the scene and was caught by troopers a short time later. WSP reports show four vehicles were involved. Amina was angered by some of the statements police claimed he gave to the troopers.
“He said that whoever died and passed away was the driver, which is just so heartless,” she said.
Court documents claim Mohamud said the person who was dead in the SUV was the one driving, not him. The probable cause documents provided by the King County Prosecutor’s Office also claimed that Mohamumd stated he had picked up his friend at his house, and when he did, he let his friend drive as he got in the back seat.
In court Monday, Mohamud faced multiple charges, including felony hit and run, driving with a suspended license, violating an ignition interlock requirement, and four counts of reckless endangerment. He pleaded not guilty to all the counts.
For Amina, the charges are warranted.
“I never thought in my life that I would lose my youngest brother, who was just 26 years old,” she said.
Mohamud posted bail and has been released. On Monday, the judge presiding over his hearing agreed with the prosecution on electronic home detention and said Mohamud and others cannot reach out to the victim’s family. That includes Amina, who still is reeling from the loss of her brother just a few weeks ago.
“He had his life ahead of him, I never, I never would imagine anything like this,” she shared.
Mohamud’s trial is expected to begin in July.
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