Crime & Safety
Man Hit By Car In New Brunswick, Driver Fled Scene
Detectives are actively working to locate a silver 2011 Kia Soul with a New Jersey license plate of M32VNN.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — A pedestrian was hit by a car and killed in New Brunswick Sunday evening, said the Middlesex County Prosecutor and New Brunswick Police.
The pedestrian, Naim Chirino, 38, a New Brunswick resident, was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, where he later died.
He was hit by the car at 7:23 p.m. at the intersection of Remsen Avenue and Seamen Street. Someone called 911 to report a man had been hit, and arriving officers found him lying unconscious in the street.
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The car that hit him fled the scene. Detectives are actively working to locate a silver 2011 Kia Soul with a New Jersey license plate of M32VNN.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Detective James Barnes of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at 732-745-3437 or Officer Andy Rodriguez of the New Brunswick Police Department at 732-745-5200.
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