Police arrest suspect in hit-and-run

The 33-year-old man wanted in connection with a fatal hit-and-run Saturday night surrendered to police Tuesday night.

Traffic investigators said the man gave himself up at 9:30 p.m. at the main police station on Beretania Street, where he was arrested on suspicion of accidental death and third-degree negligent homicide. He was still in custody Wednesday morning.

Investigators said charges are pending.

Police said Micah Borengasser and the suspect, who is believed to be the driver of a Jeep Cherokee, got into a fight on Keolu Drive in Enchanted Lake about 9:40 p.m. Saturday. The driver of the Jeep drove off from the scene, apparently to avoid further confrontation, and ran over Borengasser, who had fallen to the ground, police said.

Borengasser, a 2009 Kalaheo High School graduate, was taken to Castle Medical Center, where he died.

Police found the Jeep Cherokee on Oneawa Street in Kailua Sunday afternoon, but the driver remained at large.

Borengasser’s father said his son was at a party in Kailua just before the crash and was walking a woman out to make sure she was OK. Friends told the elder Borengasser his son was trying to protect the woman when the fight began.