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An NYPD spokesperson on Sunday said police found the hit-and-run truck driver who killed a 69-year-old woman with a tractor-trailer on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn early Friday, but said cops didn’t arrest him because he said he did not know he struck the woman.
Police identified the victim as Deborah Koonce, and said investigators believed she was panhandling on the street near Schenectady Avenue just before 5:20 a.m. when she was struck by the 18-wheeler heading eastbound. Koonce, whose address was listed as a supportive housing facility a block away from the crash, was pronounced dead at the scene…