Oakland police have introduced the arrest of a suspect within the hit-and-run dying of famend sociology professor Michael Burawoy.
Kermith Miller, 61, was arrested in Oakland and booked into Santa Rita Jail on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run inflicting dying, in response to court docket data.
He’s being held with out bail and is scheduled to be arraigned Friday at 9 a.m. on the Wiley Manuel Courthouse in Oakland.
Retired UC Berkeley sociology professor Michael Burawoy was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver close to Lake Merritt in Oakland on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (Volodymyr Paniotto/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
Miller is suspected of hitting 77-year-old Burawoy whereas he was in a crosswalk on the intersection of Grand Avenue and Park View Terrace at about 7:15 a.m. on Feb. 3.
Paramedics responded to the scene and took Burawoy to a hospital, the place the previous professor at College of California, Berkeley was pronounced useless.
Burawoy “dedicated 47 years of his life to Berkeley, contributing immeasurably to the discipline, transforming the fields of labor, ethnography and theory,” in response to a social media publish by Raka Ray, dean of UC Berkeley’s Division of Social Sciences.
Ray mentioned Burawoy was previous president of the American Sociological Affiliation and the Worldwide Sociological Affiliation, the writer of many scholarly books and a mentor and inspiration to hundreds of scholars whose lives he modified along with his “fierce mind and kindness.
