A driver wanted in connection to the fatal hit-and-run crash involving a Montgomery County Department of Transportation employee has been apprehended at Dulles International Airport after leaving the country, authorities announced.
Potomac resident Ricky Rohan Kapoor, 30, was arrested over the weekend after traveling to Bogota in Columbia following the fateful hit-and-run in November.
According to the Montgomery County Department of Police, at around 9:10 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24, officers were called to investigate a reported crash involving a pedestrian and driver who fled the area at the intersection of Briggs Chaney Road and Legend Oaks Drive in Silver Spring.
Briggs Chaney Road and Legend Oaks Drive in Silver Spring
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Police say that Kapoor left the scene without attempting to render aid to the DOT employee before ultimately going to Columbia..
The DOT employee was working at the time when he was struck by Kapoor’s 2006 silver Infiniti sedan, who then left the area on foot.