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PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A woman is jailed after Phoenix police say she intentionally ran over and killed a man she recently met through a dating app.
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Mikela Antresa Bahe, 30, is facing charges, including murder, in connection with the death of 52-year-old Norris L. Taft.
Just after 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 3, police and fire crews were called out to the parking lot of an apartment complex in the area of 16th Street and Maryland Avenue. They arrived and found Taft with serious injuries, and he later died at a hospital.
The driver was gone before first responders arrived.
Detectives reviewed surveillance video showing a woman leaving the apartment and getting into a dark-colored SUV. Taft was seen walking in front of the SUV as it began moving, apparently trying to get the driver to stop. Taft then steps in front of the car trying to get her to stop. That’s when, prosecutors say, he was hit and dragged beneath the vehicle.
“There is strong evidence in this case from surveillance footage that captured the defendant running over the victim,” prosecutors said during Bahe’s first court appearance Friday. “Certainly looked like it was intentional, as she was accelerating even though the victim was in front of the car with his hands up.”
Police ran the license plate and contacted the SUV’s owner, who told investigators Taft lived alone and was the only person who drove the vehicle.
Detectives then contacted Taft’s family members, one of whom spoke with him earlier that afternoon. Taft reportedly told the relative he had met a woman through an app called MocoSpace and was on his way to pick her up.
The family member told police Taft texted a few minutes later, saying he had been “catfished” because the woman did not look like the person on the app, and he was trying to end the date.
Police pieced together Taft’s whereabouts earlier in the day, learning he and the suspect visited three businesses, including a dispensary and a gas station. Detectives reviewed surveillance video at both locations and used purchase history to identify the woman as Bahe.
According to police, the next day Bahe took a Groom shuttle from Phoenix to Flagstaff. She was arrested by Flagstaff police at a Denny’s on Wednesday and brought back to Phoenix.
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“This is a murder case, and the defendant certainly has an incentive to flee based on the lengthy prison sentence that she’s facing,” prosecutors said.
Her mother lives in Flagstaff, which may be why she went to northern Arizona.
During her first court appearance, Bahe told the judge she was trying to handle custody-related paperwork involving her child.
“I want to figure out power of attorney because she is 6 years old and she is with my mother in Flagstaff,” Bahe said.
According to court documents, Bahe admitted to detectives she was with Taft for part of the weekend. But she reportedly said she could not remember anything that happened between leaving the dispensary and the next morning.
Documents say Bahe then called a family member and said she “f***** up” and would be going to prison for a while, then refused to answer any more of the detectives’ questions. She was booked into the Maricopa County jail on suspicion of second-degree murder, leaving the scene of an accident, and theft of means of transportation.
Detectives are asking for the public’s help in finding the vehicle involved: a black 2010 Cadillac Escalade with Arizona license plate FBA 4SY.
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