Hit-and-run suspect claims victim ‘ran into me’ Shares The man accused of fatally striking his friend with a vehicle in Davis earlier this week claimed during his first court appearance Wednesday that “the guy ran into me.” Scott Bryan Ekoniak shook his head from side to side while Yolo Superior Court Judge Tom Dyer read his pending felony charges of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol causing injury and hit and run with injury. Dyer then asked whether Ekoniak, appearing via Zoom from the Yolo County Jail, had a lawyer. “I think my dad is getting me an attorney because the guy ran into me,” Ekoniak said of the Sunday night incident on Olive Drive, where 66-year-old Ernest Seyfert was struck by a westbound vehicle whose driver then fled the scene.