Family calls for answers after 23-year-old killed in hit-and-run

A Colorado family is pleading for accountability after a 23-year-old man was killed in a crosswalk on Thursday. Aurora police believe Lennard Dawson Jr. was struck by three separate vehicles. Two of the drivers didn’t stop.

Police say the crash happened just before midnight at a signal-controlled crosswalk along the Unnamed Creek Trail at South Tower Road. The third driver remained at the scene and is cooperating with investigators.

Dawson later died at the hospital.

At a vigil Monday night at Highland Hollows Park, Dawson’s loved ones gathered to mourn and remember a young man they described as warm, generous, and always smiling…

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