L.A.’s iconic boardwalk turned deadly when a car crashed into tourists, killing an Italian honeymooner. New details on the suspect and victim.


At 8 p.m. Saturday, close to two hours after mowing down a cluster of people in a deadly hit-and-run on the Venice boardwalk, 38-year-old Nathan Louis Campbell walked into the Santa Monica Police Department about two miles away and turned himself in.

“He said, ‘You guys are probably looking for me,’” said Lt. Richard Lewis, a watch commander with the Santa Monica police. “We didn’t talk to him. We didn’t handcuff him. We didn’t take him into custody. We called [the Los Angeles Police Department], and they took him.”

Campbell, who is in custody in lieu of $1 million bail, is accused of driving his 2008 Dodge Avenger onto one of California’s biggest tourist landmarks, gunning the gas, and ramming into at least 17 people, killing 32-year-old Alice Gruppioni, an Italian woman who was in Los Angeles on her honeymoon.

His car, which was reportedly purchased one month earlier from a dealership in Littleton, Colorado, was found abandoned and was quickly checked by an LAPD bomb-sniffing dog for explosives.

Charges came down on Tuesday afternoon: one count of murder, 16 counts of assault with a deadly weapon and 17 counts of hit-and-run. The complaint also includes the special allegation of use of a deadly weapon—a car. If convicted, Campbell faces life in prison..