Shortly after Amanda Hagelstein was hit by a pick-up truck as she crossed Delaware Avenue, a woman called 911 to report that her neighbor's ex-boyfriend "yelled to her that he just killed somebody by Burger King," Newark Police Cpl. Wayne Aston wrote in court documents.

That call helped lead police to arrest Kyle J. Loyd, who is now charged with DUI and leaving the scene of the crash that killed Hagelstein, a 22-year-old recent graduate of the University of Delaware.

A Breathalyzer test found that Loyd's blood alcohol content was nearly twice the legal limit, according to Aston's affidavit of probable cause, which was filed with the Justice of the Peace court.

The crash happened just after 1:30 a.m. Sunday as Hagelstein and an acquaintance were walking south on South Chapel Street.

The two pedestrians attempted to cross Delaware Avenue as a red 1994 Ford Ranger was heading east in the right lane of Delaware Avenue toward a green light.

The acquaintance stopped to let the truck pass, but Hagelstein "began to run across the roadway," and was hit by the truck, police said.

Hagelstein was rushed to Christiana Hospital, where she died a short time later.

Officers investigating the crash talked to a woman who witnessed the incident as she was pumping gas at the 7-Eleven, located at the corner of Delaware Avenue and South Chapel Street. The woman told police the truck was traveling at "a very high rate of speed" and appeared to go airborne before continuing to speed away, Aston wrote.

An officer then talked to the 911 caller, who said Loyd had just arrived at his ex-girlfriend's house in the red truck.

"(She) stated that Loyd got out of his truck and stumbled across the road to her car," Aston wrote. "(She) stated that Loyd told her someone jumped out in front of him (…) and was then laid out in the street looking dead."

Ninety minutes after the crash, two officers on their way to the ex-girlfriend's house encountered Loyd pulled over on Old Ogletown Road with a flat tire on the truck, which belongs to Loyd's boss.

"Loyd's speech was slow and slurred, and his eyes appeared to be bloodshot and glassy," court records indicate, adding that his BAC was measured at 0.152. The legal limit in Delaware is 0.08.

Loyd was taken back to the police station, where he told officers he had been drinking at Pale Dog Tavern in Glasgow and Grotto Pizza on Main Street. Records indicate he admitted to drinking three or four beers and a shot of Jack Daniel's whiskey over a period of five hours leading up to the crash.

Loyd told police that after leaving Grotto's, he saw a group of pedestrians enter the intersection of Delaware Avenue and South Chapel Street. He revved his engine, and other motorists beeped their horns.

One of the pedestrians, who Loyd thought was a man, ran across the road in front of him. Despite what he allegedly said to the neighbor, Loyd told police he didn't realize he had hit Hagelstein, Aston wrote.
Loyd, a 21-year-old resident of Marrows Road, was released on $5,500 secured bail.

On Monday, Hagelstein's friends and family members erected a makeshift memorial at the intersection where she was hit.

Candles, flowers, photos, stuffed animals and a cross adorned the corner in front of Burger King. A poster referenced Hagelstein's nickname, "Amanda Bagels," and a lifeguard T-shirt hung from a utility pole.

A funeral service for Hagelstein has been set for Friday morning, according to her obituary.

The New Castle resident was a 2010 graduate of The Charter School of Wilmington and a 2014 graduate of UD, where she studied foreign languages and literature. She was fluent in Spanish, French and German.

She was a lifeguard and swim teacher at the YMCA of Bear and was recently hired as a sales executive at the Porsche dealership on Ogletown Road.

In the obituary, her family described her as "outgoing and positive."