A 41-year-old man died after he apparently stumbled and fell in a Phoenix apartment complex parking lot, only to be struck by a car driving through moments later. Matthew Rosner sustained fatal injuries in the lot near 83rd Avenue and Camelback Road on Nov. 4, and he later died from those injuries after being taken to a hospital.
Phoenix police officers were dispatched to reports of an injured person in the complex parking lot, according to 12News. Once on scene, officers determined that Rosner had been struck by a vehicle. Detectives later said Rosner appears to have stumbled and fallen in the parking lot before a car driving through struck him, with police describing the sequence as him stumbling to the ground and then being hit by a car moving through the lot.
The investigation remains ongoing, and people with information are being encouraged to call 480-WITNESS. No further details about the driver or the exact timing of the crash have been released in the reporting so far.
Other Recent Vehicle-Strike Deaths Near Camelback Road
Rosner's death adds to a string of recent pedestrian fatalities reported along or near Camelback Road in Phoenix. In a separate case, a man found dead near 83rd Avenue and Camelback Road was identified by police as 29-year-old Michael James Brooke, according to ABC15. In that incident, police said no vehicles or drivers remained at the scene when officers arrived, pointing to a hit-and-run.
Hoodline previously reported that a man was found dead on Camelback Road in central Phoenix one Wednesday night after he appeared to have been struck by a vehicle, in a report tied to that case. That same report noted that 48-year-old Ivan Donald Sloan died after being struck by a hit-and-run driver near 21st Avenue and Camelback Road in West Phoenix.
Parking Lots Have Proven Dangerous in Other Valley Cases
Parking lots themselves have been the scene of other fatal strikes around the Valley. In one case near Central Avenue and Thomas Road, a man was run over by a pickup truck at around 4:30 a.m. when a woman arrived for work and parked in the lot, according to fox10phoenix.com. The preliminary investigation in that incident indicated the driver struck an object she believed was debris as she parked her vehicle.
A passerby called police about an hour after that collision to report that someone was underneath the pickup truck, the outlet reported. The Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office was set to determine the cause of death in that case. As with Rosner's death, Phoenix police have not announced any citations or charges stemming from the Nov. 4 incident, and the investigation into what happened in the apartment complex parking lot continues.
