An 86-year-old Hilton Head Island man is behind bars for felony hit-and-run after allegedly striking a pedestrian outside a gourmet restaurant. Kenneth J. Hall, of the Indigo Run community, was charged Friday evening with hit-and-run involving great bodily injury and three magistrate-level offenses related to a lack of registration and insurance. Surveillance footage from outside Lulu Kitchen on Friday morning shows a woman walking toward the parking lot when a passing dark-colored station wagon appears to strike her. The person falls to the pavement as the vehicle drives away.
Trooper Nick Pye of the South Carolina Highway Patrol said investigators identified the suspect vehicle as a 2004 Mercury station wagon. Hall was arrested hours after the collision and received a $100,000 cash bond for the felony hit-and-run charge, according to Beaufort County court records. Lulu Kitchen is part of the Fresh Market Shoppes strip mall off U.S. 278 (William Hilton Parkway), near the entrance to Long Cove Club on southeast Hilton Head.
Scott Hastings, an award-winning chef at Lulu Kitchen, showed the restaurant’s footage to police when they responded. He called the footage “pretty graphic.”
The chef said he believed the incident could have been intentional. Hall allowed two other people to cross the street shortly before accelerating into the pedestrian and blowing past a stop sign in front of the restaurant, Hastings said…