A new suspect has been arrested in the collision that killed Arlington police officer Darrin McMichael in September 2023.
Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown announced the arrest of 22-year-old Ryan Luckett in Jackson, Mississippi, media partner Star-Telegram, WFAA-TV reported.
Luckett will be transferred to Dallas County, Brown said.
The arrest comes three months after a 26-year-old man was taken into custody, also in Jackson, Mississippi. He was arrested by the US Marshals Task Force and charged with hit and run resulting in death, but prosecutors dropped the charges.
“It was in the interest of justice that we dropped charges against one individual and prosecuted the second,” Sheriff Brown said of the change in the case, according to WFAA.
Arlington Police Officer Darrin McMichael was killed on the morning of September 21, 2023, when he was struck and run over by a car on Interstate 20.
McMichael worked for the Arlington Police Department for 24 years and for 13 years in the motorcycle unit. He had also worked as a patrol officer and detective in Arlington’s North Patrol District.
Investigators linked Luckett to the collision and issued a warrant for his arrest, according to the sheriff’s office. At the time the warrant was issued, Luckett was in custody at the Hinds County Jail in Jackson for a parole violation, WFAA reported.
Although Brown did not specify how Luckett was identified as a suspect, she said Luckett and the man initially arrested knew each other, the report said.
Luckett has been transferred to the Mississippi Department of Corrections and the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office has placed a detainer on him pending his release, the sheriff’s office said.
