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Driver Who Allegedly Struck, Killed 8-Year-Old Girl Held On $500,000 Bail
![A memorial set up for 8-year-old hit and run victim Yadielys Deleon Camacho is seen Monday near the accident scene on West Selden Street in Mattapan. The accident happened Saturday. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)](https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/0608_mattapan-girl-accident01-1000x667.jpg)
A Boston man police allege struck and killed an 8-year-old girl with his car Saturday night has been ordered held on $500,000 bail.
James Horton, 45, was arraigned Monday in Dorchester Municipal Court on charges including motor vehicle homicide, leaving the scene of an accident causing death and operating with a suspended license.
Police allege Horton was behind the wheel of a vehicle that struck and killed the girl and injured her 12-year-old cousin, a boy, on West Selden Street in the city's Mattapan neighborhood at about 11 p.m. Saturday.
Family members identified the 8-year-old as Yadielys Deleon Camacho.
Before the accident, the children were at their grandmother's birthday party, family members said, and were riding bikes.
"Witnesses observed the vehicle, a rented 2015 Chevy Cruze, operating at a high rate of speed on West Selden Street before it jumped onto the sidewalk and struck the victims," according to a release from the Suffolk district attorney's office. Witnesses said the car then hit a parked car and struck a fence. Horton then allegedly ran from the scene. Authorities found him Sunday morning hiding in a closet at a residence in Brockton.
At Horton's arraignment Monday, Yadielys' mother, Yalitza Camacho, clutched a stuffed animal, while Yadielys' grandmother, Maria Cruz, had to be consoled following an outburst.
![Yadielys Deleon Camacho's cousin, Julysa Cordova, holds her grieving grandmother, Maria Cruz, at Dorchester Municipal Court Monday after an outburst she had during the arraignment of James Horton. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)](https://media.wbur.org/wp/2015/06/0608_mattapan-girl-accident03.jpg)
With reporting by The Associated Press and the WBUR Newsroom
This article was originally published on June 08, 2015.