Crime & Safety
Arrest Made in Hit-And-Run Accident that Killed Laura McDermott
Witnesses allegedly saw the driver of the car that hit and killed Laura McDermott on Sunday.
Denver police have arrested a man in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed a Simsbury native early Sunday morning.
According to the Denver Post, police arrested 25-year-old Dennis Esquibel who witnesses allegedly saw driving his mother's car, a 1991 Toyota Corolla matching the description of a car police believe was involved in a hit-and-run accident that killed Laura McDermott.
McDermott was a 1998 graduate of Simsbury High School who has been living in Denver, Colo.
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According to an interview on KDVR.com with Laura's father, Gerry McDermott, she was about to get engaged to her boyfriend.
McDermott, 32, was crossing the street when a speeding car struck her and kept going. McDermott was taken to the Denver Health Medical Center where she was pronounced deceased, police said.
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