DENVER — A man has been charged in connection with a deadly hit-and-run crash that killed a woman who was walking on the sidewalk Wednesday afternoon in Denver, according to the Denver Police Department (DPD).
Roosevelt Cribbs, 67, has been charged with:
- Leaving the scene of an accident, a felony
- Vehicular homicide, a felony
- Tampering with physical evidence, a felony
- Driving after revocation prohibited, a misdemeanor
Cribbs was driving a Winnebago RV eastbound in the 1900 block of West Jewell Avenue around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday when he veered into westbound traffic and then went up on the curb and onto the sidewalk where he struck a 44-year-old woman, according to probable cause statement for his arrest from DPD.
The coroner later identified that woman as 44-year-old Saliha Suleiman.
He did not stop after the crash, according to the PC statement, and instead continued eastbound on West Jewell Avenue. The woman was taken to the hospital but later died.
She was identified Friday as 44-year-old Saliha Suleiman. An autopsy revealed that her cause of death was from multiple force injuries.
DPD said Wednesday evening that they had located the RV at 1330 West Mississippi Ave. They had been looking for a 1985 beige or tan Winnebago with Colorado temporary license plate 1612796.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) issued a Medina Alert Wednesday afternoon for that vehicle. A Medina Alert issues an urgent bulletin in the most serious hit-and-run cases.
The Medina Alert program sends notifications to patrol officers, cab drivers, and truck drivers to be on the lookout for a hit-and-run vehicle. The program is named after Jose Medina, a Denver valet who was killed by a hit-and-run driver on Lincoln Street in 2011.
If you have information about the case, please call 720-913-2000.
DPD tweeted about the hit-and-run involving the death of a pedestrian at about 4:30 p.m., four hours after it happened.
Denver Police in July changed to an encrypted radio transmission that cuts off the public from real-time dispatch traffic, ending years-long access to scanner audio.
Jill Farschman, CEO of the Colorado Press Network, said scanner audio is crucial during breaking news situations. The audio helps journalists get to scenes quickly so witnesses can be interviewed, she said.
9NEWS and several other local media outlets refused to sign an agreement with the city to get access to the encrypted radio audio. Local media outlets take issue with a few clauses in the agreement, including one that would allow the city to inspect a media outlet’s “pertinent books, documents, papers and records.”
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