A suspect has been charged in the December hit-and-run crash in Bessemer that killed a 57-year-old Bessemer man.

Eddie Benjamin III, 51, is charged with reckless manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in injury or death.

Killed in the Dec. 28, 2024, crash was Darren Dewayne Amison. He lived in Bessemer.

Officers were dispatched at 5:45 a.m. that Saturday to a report of a man in the road in the 2600 block of Eighth Avenue North. It was not immediately clear when he was struck.

Amison was pronounced dead on the scene at 5:54 a.m.

Authorities said Amison was walking in the roadway when he was fatally hit.

Benjamin was booked in the Jefferson County Jail Friday and remains held.

Court records show that at the time of his arrest, Benjamin was already under indictment and out on bond for three counts of first-degree assault, felony attempting to elude and unlawful possession of marijuana pending a mental evaluation.

The earlier charges stem from a Dec. 22, 2021, crash that happened while Benjamin was fleeing police. Three people, including a child, were injured in that wreck.

Bessemer Cutoff prosecutors on Monday filed a motion to revoke Benjamin’s bond in the previous cases, noting that a Sept. 4, 2024, judge’s order restricting Benjamin from driving, possessing a gun and consuming illegal drugs.

He violated the bond, prosecutors contend, when he got behind the wheel of a car again, which resulted in the crash that killed Amison.