HARTFORD, Conn. — A man operating a scooter was killed in a hit-and-run crash early Sunday according to Hartford police.
Officers were called to the area of 53 Maple Avenue, by the Hartford Hospital campus, around 12:45 a.m. for the report of a crash. They found 39-year-old Josue Colon, of New Britain, in a parking lot with a scooter nearby.
Colon was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said the vehicle that reportedly struck Colon had left the scene. It was later found by officers unoccupied on Wethersfield Avenue.
The investigation of the crash is ongoing.
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