Suspected fatal hit-and-run driver arrested
Police say Davisburg man is responsible for death of a well-known downtown figure
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BIRMINGHAM More than nine months after an unknown suspect left the scene of a fatal car accident in downtown Birmingham, police have been able to track down the driver they believe to be responsible.
Investigators have located the suspect vehicle and driver, Steven Fowlow, a 52-year-old man from Davisburg. Fowlow was arraigned in front of Magistrate Julie Nelson-Klein at the 48th District Court for failure to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in death. Nelson-Klein issued a $10,000 cash/surety/10% bond for Fowlow.
How intense search helped Birmingham police arrest suspected deadly hit-and-run driver
Suspect charged with failure to stop at the scene of a crash
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DETROIT – Mike Simpson, a detective sergeant with the Birmingham Police Department talked about the process involved in arresting a suspected deadly hit-and-run driver.
Simpson stated that the list from the Secretary of State started with somewhere around 9,000 vehicles in Michigan. The list was narrowed again based on model year with hundreds if not a thousand results.
That list was ultimately narrowed again to 100 vehicles based on two possible color matches.
Investigators made contact with every owner on the list of the 100 viewing each vehicle to rule them out as the possible suspect vehicle, said Simpson. Eventually, this led to the discovery of the vehicle involved in the crash.
Suspect arrested for hit-and-run death of man on Woodward Ave in Birmingham in August
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Steven Fowlow was arrested for the hit-and-run death of a man in Birmingham in August of 2020.
BIRMINGHAM, Mich. (FOX 2) - Police in Birmingham said a suspect has been arrested for the hit-and-run death of a homeless man who was killed in August of 2020.
According to police, Steven Fowlow, 52, was arrested after a 10-month-long investigation into the death of Wesley Stamps on Aug. 8, 2020. Stamps was killed early that morning while walking along Woodward in Birmingham around 2 a.m.
Police told FOX 2 in August that after Stamps was hit, the driver stopped for about 20 seconds but then left him to die in the road. Police said Stamps was crossing Woodward and not using a crosswalk when he was hit.
Michigan man tries to fix car in backyard after hitting, killing pedestrian in Birmingham, police say
Steven Fowlow charged in death of Wesley Stamps
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The crash happened just before 2 a.m. Aug. 8 on Woodward Avenue near Forest Avenue in Birmingham, authorities said.
Wesley Stamps, 40, of Southfield, was crossing Woodward Avenue when he was struck by a dark-colored Chevrolet Traverse heading north, police said at the time. Stamps was not in a crosswalk, officials said.
The driver who struck Stamps stopped briefly before leaving the scene, authorities said.
Investigators said they identified Steven Fowlow, 52, of Davisburg, Michigan, as the suspected driver. He was found at his home, and the Traverse was in the backyard, where he was trying to repair the damage himself, according to police.