Two New Jersey women have been pronounced dead after they were struck in a hit-and-run crash while walking home from a World Cup watch party. Mariana Elizabeth Valverde Beltran, 58, and Maria Isabel DeLosAngeles Salgado Ayala, 61, were allegedly hit by David J. Zapata-Vera at an intersection on Saturday night.
The pair were walking across an intersection at Park Avenue and North 7th Street in Newark, reports the New York Post, when a driver sped through a crosswalk and hit both, sending them into the air. The suspect behind the wheel allegedly did not stop the vehicle and instead fled the scene of the crash before police arrived.
