The prime suspect in the hit-and-run killing of Ryan Dallas Cook, trombonist for ska revivalists The Suburban Legends has been identified but has since fled to Korea.

According to local media, 39-year-old Youn Bum Lee was with some business associates at Seoul-Oak Korean B.B.Q. restaurant where witnesses say he drank eight shots of Soju --a Korean rice wine. The report says the group went to a Karaoke bar until just before midnight.

After the traffic collision, Mr. Lee contacted one of the witnesses and drove the vehicle back to the corporation where he met with one of the witnesses and then he left the country through LAX,

Ryan's family had this to say:

What kind of a man is he who doesn't stand up for what he did. He made a mistake and he was too cowardly to stick around and own up to his own mistakes.

Ryan Cook was killed in November of 2005. He was 23.