A suspect has been arrested in the hit-and-run accident that killed Gone Girl actress Lisa Banes, the NYPD has announced. The suspect is a 26-year-old Manhattan man, Brian Boyd, who fled the scene after he hit the film, television and Broadway star on June 4 with an electric scooter.
Boyd lives close to the corner near Manhattan’s Lincoln Center where Banes, who was 65, was struck by the scooter, Deadline is reporting. According to an NYPD news release, he was arrested on Thursday after patrol cops recognized him from a wanted poster.
In connection to the case, Boyd has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in a death and failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
He’s set to return to court tomorrow, August 11.
Banes, whose on-screen credits also included Cocktail, Royal Pains and One Life To Live, was walking near her alma mater, Lincoln Center’s Julliard School, when she was struck in the crosswalk by the scooter. She died 10 days later from the traumatic brain injury.
The Drama Desk Award-nominated actress was visiting New York City’s Upper West Side from Los Angeles for a role in the Manhattan Theater Club’s streaming production of The Niceties. Before the accident, she was on her way to meet her wife, journalist Kathryn Kranhold, for a dinner party near Julliard. The NYPD said she was struck after the scooter went through a red light.