On Dec. 28, an 83-year-old man named Leonidas Constantine Smith was killed in a hit-and-run incident on Morgan Mill Road in Monroe.
The driver, later identified as Francisco Roman Escobar, fled the scene without offering assistance or reporting the accident.
The tragic incident occurred at approximately 6:15 p.m., leading to an intensive investigation by the Union County Sheriff’s Office, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation…