Fatal Hit And Run In Downtown Jersey City: Woman Charged

JERSEY CITY, NJ — A Jersey City woman was arrested Thursday, Dec. 27 and charged with the fatal hit-and run-death of a pedestrian, Cory Nettles, on Monmouth Street in downtown Jersey City. The incident happened last week, at 5:30 in the evening on the Saturday before Christmas.

Delores Freire, 66, of Jersey City, was arrested at 12:30 p.m. Thursday by members of the Hudson County Regional Collision Investigation Unit and charged with leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident resulting in death.

At approximately 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 22, the Jersey City police department received a report of a man lying in the roadway on Monmouth Street in the area between 10th and 12th streets. Police found him unresponsive with injuries consistent with being struck by a vehicle. There were also vehicle parts found at the scene.

The man, who was later identified as Nettles, 44, also a Jersey City resident, was taken to the Jersey City Medical Center where he was pronounced dead shortly after 6:30 p.m. that night.

Freire was arrested without incident yesterday when she was already at the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office in Jersey City.

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