Photo: Harrison Samuel Bowser
LONG BEACH – A man who ran over a woman who was thrown to the ground at a Long Beach gas station on 12/15/19 faces stiff state-prison time. Harrison Samuel Bowser (dob 7/1/89) of Los Angeles just got slapped with a murder charge added to the case filed against him for his role in a dastardly-duo throwdown leading to the demise of a Long Beach woman.
The L.A. County District Attorney’s Office added the charge of murder on 12/26/19 to amend Case NA113459. Long Beach Police Department Investigators have conducted the ongoing investigation which started with a fight at a gas station on the 400 block of West Anaheim Street.
Codefendant Samantha Smith (dob 11/3/93) of Long Beach allegedly fought victim Elizabeth Perez-Espino (25) and threw her on the ground. “Bowser, who was there with Smith, later ran over the victim and fled the scene,” prosecutors added. “Perez-Espino died as a result of her injuries on Dec. 22nd.”
Bowser is charged with “one count each of murder and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence as well as one count each of hit-and-run driving resulting in injury to another person and assault with a deadly weapon, a truck.”
Smith’s one felony count of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury casts a pall on the amended complaint scheduled on 12/26/19 in Dept S01 of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Long Beach Branch.
The dastardly duo faces hard jail time. For her part, Smith faces a possible maximum sentence of four years in prison. A possible 15 years-to-life maximum sentence in state prison awaits Bowser, if convicted as charged.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey leads the largest local prosecutorial office in the nation. Her staff of nearly 1,000 attorneys, 300 investigators and 800 support staff members is dedicated to protecting the community through the fair and ethical pursuit of justice and the safeguarding of crime victims’ rights.
