Man charged in hit-and-run death of Indiana student waiting to board school bus
Updated: 6:43 PM EDT Sep 3, 2021
Prosecutors formally charged a man Friday in the hit-and-run death of a 16-year-old southern Indiana high school student as she prepared to board a school bus.Shiam Sunder Shankara Subramanian, 25, of Columbus, was charged with felony leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and felony passing a school bus when the arm signal is extended causing death, court records showed.Subramanian, whose bond is set at $1.25 million, was being held in the Bartholomew County Jail. Subramanian is a citizen of India and in the U.S. on a work visa, so prosecutors requested that he be required to surrender his passport to the court prior to posting bond, The Republic reported.Lily Streeval of Columbus was struck and killed Monday morning. The Columbus East High School student was pronounced dead at a hospital after being struck about 6:55 a.m. while trying to board the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. bus, police said.Bartholomew County sheriff’s deputies who reviewed footage of the incident and gathered witness statements said it appeared the bus was stopped with its stop arms extended.The motorist drove off, but was followed by a witness and taken into custody a short time later along a road in the city about 40 miles (64 kilometers) south of Indianapolis, police said.In 2019, Indiana lawmakers approved tougher penalties for drivers who pass school buses with extended stop arms after three children were fatally struck while crossing a highway to board a bus.
Prosecutors formally charged a man Friday in the hit-and-run death of a 16-year-old southern Indiana high school student as she prepared to board a school bus.
Shiam Sunder Shankara Subramanian, 25, of Columbus, was charged with felony leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and felony passing a school bus when the arm signal is extended causing death, court records showed.
Subramanian, whose bond is set at $1.25 million, was being held in the Bartholomew County Jail. Subramanian is a citizen of India and in the U.S. on a work visa, so prosecutors requested that he be required to surrender his passport to the court prior to posting bond, The Republic reported.
Lily Streeval of Columbus was struck and killed Monday morning. The Columbus East High School student was pronounced dead at a hospital after being struck about 6:55 a.m. while trying to board the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. bus, police said.
Bartholomew County sheriff’s deputies who reviewed footage of the incident and gathered witness statements said it appeared the bus was stopped with its stop arms extended.
The motorist drove off, but was followed by a witness and taken into custody a short time later along a road in the city about 40 miles (64 kilometers) south of Indianapolis, police said.
In 2019, Indiana lawmakers approved tougher penalties for drivers who pass school buses with extended stop arms after three children were fatally struck while crossing a highway to board a bus.
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