Virginia magazine editor, 23, killed in hit-and-run while crossing street

A Virginia mag exertion was killed arsenic she walked crossed the streets successful downtown Richmond successful a hit-and-run, constabulary said.

According to Virginia Living steadfast John-Lawrence Smith, 23-year-old Hope Cartwright, an subordinate exertion astatine the widely-read section magazine, was killed connected Monday, Feb. 16 during a hit-and-run.

"It is with profound sorrow that I constitute to you contiguous with devastating news," Smith wrote successful a Facebook post. "Hope was each of 23 years old—gifted, dedicated, and 1 of the astir talented members of the Virginia Living team."

"She stood astatine the threshold of what would person been a singular career, and her lack leaves a coiled that words cannot adequately express," helium said.

Hope Cartwright, subordinate exertion astatine Virginia Living magazine, died successful the Richmond hit-and-run. Latesha Coleman, 41, is charged with felony hit-and-run. (The Virginia Living magazine/Facebook)

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According to the Richmond, Virginia Police Department, authorities were called to the intersection astir 5:34 p.m. Monday and recovered Cartwright unresponsive. She was transported to a infirmary wherever she died.

Using postulation camera footage and information from Flock Automatic License Plate Readers, authorities determined that a conveyance making a near crook struck her and fled earlier officers arrived. According to police, analysts successful the RPD Capital City Intelligence Center identified the conveyance and its registered owner, identified arsenic Latesha Coleman, 41, wrong an hour.

Coleman is charged with felony hit-and-run successful transportation to the crash. Her adjacent tribunal quality is March 10.

Latesha Coleman, 41, of Richmond, has been charged with felony hit-and-run. (Richmond, Virginia Police Department)

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On Wednesday, according to WTVR-TV, the Commonwealth’s Attorney urged the justice to contradict enslaved citing Coleman’s transgression past of cause possession and selling convictions, petit larceny conviction, and respective failures to look dating backmost to 2002.

She was much than halfway done the intersection, they said.

"[Hope] did everything she was expected to," the prosecution told the judge.

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According to the outlet, the Commonwealth's Attorney's bureau said that the video allegedly shows Coleman concisely slowing down aft interaction earlier driving off.

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Hope Cartwright smiling successful an Instagram photo. The 23-year-old was killed successful a hit-and-run successful Richmond. (Hope Cartwright/Instagram)

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They besides said, according to WTVR-TV, that Coleman told detectives she thought she deed a curb and that investigators "noticed an odor of alcohol."

But the authoritative said that determination are nary curbs oregon medians anyplace adjacent the mediate of the intersection wherever Cartwright was struck. They besides said Coleman was driving connected a suspended licence but astatine 1 constituent did person a CDL license.

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