Driver, vehicle ID’ed in fatal Minn. hit-and-run

Published 8:11 am Thursday, January 6, 2011

HERMANTOWN, Minn.  — Hermantown police say they’ve identified the driver and car suspected in a fatal hit-and-run last week.

The Duluth News Tribune reports officers from the Hermantown Police Department and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension executed a search warrant on a Hermantown resident’s vehicle.

Police say the driver of the vehicle has not been arrested or charged, pending the results of evidence collection.

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Eighty-two-year-old Laurence Sundquist was struck as he crossed the road in the fog getting his paper early on Dec. 30. He died at a Duluth hospital.