NEW BEDFORD (WBSM) — New Bedford Police announced today that the department has made “significant progress” in the hit-and-run death of Nicolassa Ventura Colaj, having “identified, located, and seized” the vehicle involved.
Colaj was struck and killed just after midnight on New Year’s Day as she crossed Acushnet Avenue after leaving a New Year’s Eve church gathering at the Iglesia Pentecostal Unida Latinoamericana Church.
The suspect vehicle then fled the scene…