Santa Rosa police identify crash victim
Santa Rosa police on Tuesday identified the man killed Saturday when he was thrown out of a minivan as Alan Scott Tree of Santa Rosa.
Tree, 77, was riding in a 1998 white Dodge Caravan driven by his girlfriend, Darlene Ferris, 71, when she accelerated backwards in a circle in the former Kmart parking lot on Industrial Drive. Tree was thrown from the vehicle, who was then ran over.
The van also struck a concrete curb and a tree in the parking lot, police said.
Ferris, who is homeless, was jailed on suspicion of DUI with injury and gross vehicular manslaughter, both felonies.
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