“Baywatch” and “Melrose Place” star David Charvet is accused of striking a dog with his car, killing it, early Thursday in Malibu, which authorities deny was a hit-and-run as previously alleged.
The nineties star, 53, was driving his pickup truck in a gated community at around 6 a.m., when he swerved to avoid hitting Sunday, who ran out in front of the vehicle, TMZ reports.
The 11-year-old English Labrador was one of Vera Errico’s three pups she was walking at the time, all of whom she insists were on leashes, though Charvet and the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station says otherwise.
Errico told the outlet that the actor — who offered “no comment” to TMZ — hit her dog and kept driving outside the neighborhood, at which point she thinks he called the cops.
Though it was too late for Sunday, who had to be euthanized, Errico and her husband have a police report for a hit-and-run with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office.
The Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station told the Daily News that the incident is “not a hit-and-run. It’s an accident.”
Though they’ll continue to investigate, authorities thus far seem to align with Charvet’s account, that the dog was unleashed when it “went in front of the vehicle” and was struck. Though Sunday “unfortunately” had to be put down, authorities reiterated the case is “not a hit-and-run.”
Charvet starred as Matt Brody across 70 episodes of “Baywatch” and Craig Field on nearly 50 episodes of “Melrose Place,” but has comparatively flown under the radar in recent years. He last appeared on screen in 2013’s “Prisoners of the Sun.”