Prosecutors Allege Marshonda Whitaker Helped Alex Kristopher Kirksey Flee California

Los Angeles County prosecutors have charged a 42-year-old woman with helping the suspected driver in a deadly Santa Monica hit-and-run evade arrest, escalating the case that left two pedestrians dead and two others seriously injured.

Marshonda Lajune Whitaker faces one felony count of accessory after the fact, accused of aiding Alex Kristopher Kirksey, 38, after the Oct. 24 collision on Wilshire Boulevard. Investigators say Whitaker knew Kirksey had allegedly committed gross vehicular manslaughter and felony hit-and-run and assisted him as he left California in the days following the crash.

Kirksey was located in Chicago, taken into custody, and extradited to Los Angeles County, where he has pleaded not

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