Crime & Safety

Fatal Hit-And-Run Victim Identified In Hartford: Report: UPDATE

The incident is the fourth fatal hit-and-run incident in the Greater Hartford area since June 3.

HARTFORD, CT — Local police are investigating yet another fatal hit-and-run accident in which a pedestrian was killed, according to a report Thursday morning.

WFSB Channel 3 reports that a person was hit and killed by a fleeing vehicle at about 11:55 p.m. Wednesday night near the intersection of Main Street and Tower Avenue.

Citing the Hartford Police Department, WFSB identified the victim as being 40-year-old Lutricia Daniels of Chicopee, Mass.

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This is the third fatal pedestrian incident this month in the Greater Hartford area.

On June 3, a 1-year-old toddler was killed in a hit-and-run incident on New Britain Avenue after the girl wandered out of a laundromat late that night.

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Then, on June 6, two Hartford men were killed at a crash scene in East Hartford as they were standing beside a wrecked vehicle on Route 5/15.

Suspects in both of those incidents are still at large.

Meanwhile, a construction worker was killed last week on June 12 at the intersection of West Boulevard and South Whitney Street.

Local police have charged a 25-year-old Hartford in connection with that incident.

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