A driver has been arrested and charged in a hit-and-run that killed a pedestrian in LeDroit Park earlier this month.

D.C. police said that Morris Kenya Harley and Daniel Olaya got into a verbal argument in the 1900 block of 4th Street NW at 1:45 a.m. on February 5. Harley then “intentionally struck the victim with his vehicle” and fled the scene, per police. Olaya, a 35-year-old sound engineer from Bowie, Md., was taken to a hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries the next day.

Harley, a 36 year old of no fixed address, has been charged with first-degree murder while armed. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 1 at D.C. Superior Court.

The victim’s sister, Becky Olaya, recounted what she was told by friends who were at the scene in an interview with WJLA.

“They told me they were walking down 4th Street, and the car went down the street quickly and almost hit all three of them at the beginning, so they screamed to him to slow down. And they told me the car just stopped really quick and reversed towards where they were,” she said. “And he started to talk to them in a bad way out of his window.”

Her brother’s friends say the driver then got out of the car and confronted them.

“From what I understand, he threatened my brother and told him he had a gun in the car. And that’s when he went back to the car, supposedly to get the gun. And that’s when my brother took a chance of taking a picture of the license plate and started walking away.”

She says her brother was hit from behind moments later.

“I guess it infuriated the driver to see he took a picture of the license plate number,” she said. “And he just hit him, full force from behind. From what I understand, my brother landed on the hood.”

It was the first traffic fatality of 2019.

In a GoFundMe campaign to help pay for funeral expenses, family members described Olaya as a man with “a passion for making music and bringing laughter and joy to every situation.” He had a 3-year-old son.