Police haven’t specified the Tesla in their latest accident report but local press has inserted it from prior arrest records.

In the August 2023 arrest of the driver who later hit and killed Dowhan, a GRPD officer had spotted a white Tesla eastbound on Leonard Street NW near Hamilton Avenue NW.

“(The) officer recognized the driver of the Tesla as someone he saw thirty minutes prior,” wrote an officer in the 2023 probable cause affidavit. “(The) officer advised that he originally saw the white Tesla Park in the middle of the street on 2nd Street NW. He advised that the driver at the time appeared intoxicated. The officer told the driver to have a sober person move the car.”

It appeared the driver had failed to do so.

“Based on this observation officers activated their lights to initiate a traffic stop,” an officer reported in the affidavit. “The Tesla failed to pull over and crossed the fog line and struck a curb. The vehicle eventually pulled over on US-131.”