Roommate Who Pleaded For Help Arrested In Deadly Bay Area Hit-And-Run: Police

SAN JOSE, CA — Police arrested a woman Monday in connection with a deadly hit and run involving her passenger, police said.

Marianna Belmares was arrested on suspicion of felony hit and run after her roommate Loren Badillo, 29, was killed on McCoy Avenue Saturday night.

Belmares had tearfully talked about losing her friend in an interview with NBC Bay Area on Monday. Belmares also spoke about how she had gone door to door asking neighbors if they had seen anything and to collect security footage.

At around 6:28 p.m. on Saturday, San Jose Police Department officers responded to the 4900 Block of McCoy Avenue after receiving calls about a possible hit-and-run crash, police said.

Police said that they determined the severely injured man had been a passenger in a 2018 black Chevrolet Volt, driven by a woman, traveling eastbound. The man exited the moving car and was injured. Police said the driver fled the scene before officers arrived.

Badillo later died, police said.

Officers said they have now determined that Belmares was driving the Chevrolet Volt with Badillo when he exited the car and she fled the scene before officers arrived.

"I truly can’t believe that somebody has the lack of human decency to get on TV and say how much they love somebody, produce fake tears and yet this is the same person that could let someone lay on the side of the street while they drove away," Tammie Conti, Badillo's mother, told NBC Bay Area. "We are devastated to learn it was his roommate. We want justice for Loren."