The driver suspected of blowing through a stop light and killing a man on Staten Island last week has been identified as Shyheim, a longtime affiliate of hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. According to the Staten Island Advance, Shyheim turned himself in on Wednesday (Jan. 8th), and will likely be charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident, a class D felony.

The paper also reports that Shyheim has an active rap sheet, having served 16-months for a 2002 second-degree robbery conviction, and, at the time of the crash, was out on bail after an April arrest on drug and gun possession charges. (A police search of his house allegedly resulted in the recovery of a .32 caliber revolver, a Xanax pill, more than 40 glassines of heroin and other drug paraphernalia.)

"I just want people to know, of course you know the NYPD have a history of not flying straight, you know what I'm saying? Pretty much that. I remain that I'm innocent and I will fight it to the end, that's basically all that I can do," Shyheim told HipHopDX at the time. "I'm not the first person that this happened to, there's a lot of innocent people in the prison system today and it's just sad but true [that] you're guilty until you're proven innocent."

Shyheim, whose rise to fame began when he was just 15, has performed under the names Manchild, Little Shyheim and The Rugged Child. Besides Wu-Tang, he's worked with RZA and Tupac Shakur, and the Notorious B.I.G.

Source: Staten Island Advance