Syracuse, N.Y. — A Syracuse man has been charged in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed beloved street musician Eli Harris.

City police announced Thursday that Jerrell A. Brown, 32, was the driver of a vehicle that struck Harris while he rode his bike around 9:40 p.m. Tuesday near South Salina Street and Brighton Avenue on the city’s South Side.

Police said Brown left the scene without stopping after hitting Harris.

After being struck, Harris was on the ground waiting for help when he was struck by another vehicle, police said. That driver left the scene too, police said.

Police Thursday afternoon identified the second driver as Tanisha Wilson, 33, of Syracuse.

Police said an investigation determined that the second collision was unintentional. Wilson did not know that they had hit a person, said Sgt. Matthew Malinowski, a police department spokesman.

The injuries Harris suffered were primarily from the first collision, Malinowski said.

Harris, 62, was taken to Upstate University Hospital in critical condition, where he died.

For decades, Harris played his guitar and sang on Marshall Street before and after games at the Carrier Dome, serenading fans as they passed by.

“He called Marshall Street his alleyway,” said musician and Syracuse Common Councilor Joe Driscoll, “and he appointed himself the musical mayor of the street.”

Brown was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal motor vehicle collision, third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and unlicensed operation.

Brown was released from state prison to parole supervision in June after serving nearly eight years in prison, according to state prison records. He was convicted of a 2010 gang assault that left a Syracuse man dead.

He is being held at the Onondaga County Justice Center pending arraignment.

Editor’s note: This article was updated Thursday afternoon to include the name of the second driver. Syracuse police initially did not release the name of the driver.