SALISBURY, Md. — A driver from southern Maryland is now being charged with murder, after he struck a utility worker in a Salisbury work zone earlier this year.
The utility worker died April 2, after being hit on March 28.
Jamal Scarborough, 27, of Somerset County, is now being charged with second-degree murder in the hit-and-run, as well as driving on a revoked license and related charges.
It happened in a work zone, where there was a flagging operation, on Airport Road next to Salisbury Regional Airport, just before 10:25 a.m. Wednesday, said Maryland State Police.
A Jeep driver (later identified as 27-year-old Jamal Scarborough of Somerset County) tried to bypass the work zone, and ran over a 64-year-old utility worker, as well as the orange casings on the road, said police.
Scarborough was driving directly ahead of a state trooper. The Jeep ended up off the road, in a ditch.
The utility worker - 64-year-old Thomas R. Attix of Dover, Del. - was ultimately flown by private helicopter to Christiana Hospital in Delaware for treatment.
He was pronounced dead April 2.
Scarborough was apprehended after a brief police chase.
He is being held without bond at the Wicomico County Detention Center.
