The suspect arrested in the case of hit-and-run crash in which the pedestrian was killed in Escondido

Escondido, California (CNS)-a 42-year-old hit-and-run-suspect was arrested on Wednesday in connection with an accident in which a pedestrian in Escondido was killed in Escondido last year, the authorities said.

The crash occurred on September 17th on September 17, when the suspect, who was identified as Lair Marin Salas, a resident of Escondido, met the 58-year-old Miguel Leonides Garcia with a truck when, according to the police department of Escondido, he went to work at the intersection of Mission Avenue and Broadway.

“The investigators have spent hundreds of hours to examine this crime,” said the police head of interior, Ryan Banks. “Due to their expertise, the attention to detail and the analysis of the evidence, justice is delivered to the victim's family.”

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Salas was instructed to the Vista detention center on suspicion of the vehicle manslaughter and the hit-and-run.

It was unclear whether the victim was hit in a marked zebra crossing.

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