 Okay, good afternoon. I'm Lieutenant Robert Rock, ROCK with the Denver Police Traffic Investigations Unit, and we're here today to talk about a collision that occurred last night. At approximately 8.30 p.m., a pedestrian was attempting to cross Park Avenue West at Tremont Place when she was struck by a vehicle that was traveling outbound toward Broadway. After the collision, the vehicle continued to drive away from the scene without stopping. The pedestrian is a 66-year-old female. She was transported from the scene with serious injuries and critical condition. Today she remains in the intensive care unit at Denver Health Medical Center. The suspect vehicle that we are looking for is a 1998 Lincoln Town Car, bearing Colorado license plate number QKI285. That vehicle will have damage to the front-side, passenger-side quarter panel and also to the passenger-side-side-view mirror. Immediately after the collision and determining that we had enough information, we issued a Medina Alert, and that went out statewide. We also issued a Denver Auto Body Alert notifying all of the local auto body companies to be on the lookout for this vehicle. We would just ask that anyone with information either about the collision or about the vehicle or its whereabouts would call Crime Stoppers at 720-913-STOP. There's also a text option that you have if you want to refer over to the Crime Alert bulletin that we've sent out to everyone. At this time, I would like to have Nick, who is a volunteer in policing with the Denver Police Department, display for you the side-view mirror piece that we recovered from the scene so that you can get the exact color of the vehicle that we're looking for. This time I would like to entertain any questions that you might have. Yes ma'am. We are currently looking into that. We have some very good witnesses that saw all of this, verified the license plate number with the piece of the vehicle. We feel very confident that we're zeroing in on the correct vehicle, but we will be looking for all video that will help us understand how the collision occurred. I'm sorry? One of the witnesses at the scene, due to the ongoing investigation, I can't tell you who that was specifically at this time. Was she on the north or south side of the intersection? Yes, it's an angular street so we kind of describe that as the outbound direction when you're traveling toward Colfax. That's inbound. She is on the eastern side of the street crossing to the opposite side. We do not know. She was unable to provide any information to us last night and has not been able to today as well. Multiple blunt force trauma to head and body. Sure, our understanding is that the car had multiple people in it, but beyond that we don't know any more information that we can share with you. We would like to hear from the folks that were in the car. It is not uncommon that people who attempt to hide information about an incident that they know about could potentially get charged. And so we would encourage those passengers in that vehicle to come forward and tell us what they know before it gets more serious for them. They haven't released, but did the witnesses identify whether it might have been a male or female silhouette driving anything? Yeah, at this time, we don't have good information on that. Obviously, it was dark with the reflection off the windows and things like that. It's very difficult to tell one way or the other. Yeah, the tragedy in this situation is, is it doesn't appear that our victim has any family locally and we have not been able to contact any family at this point in time. And so this is one of those situations where it appears that our victim may have been a homeless person. And so we're doing everything we can to contact her friends and family that we can identify. But she's suffering this alone at this point in time. As far as the serious ones, this is only the second one that's risen to the level of the Medina Alert that we've had this year. And as far as additional hit and runs, I don't have the exact number for you at this time, but they continue to happen. Can you describe the Medina Alert? Yes. Sure. So several years ago, a young man by the last name of Medina was struck and killed here in Denver. He was a valet who was parking cars. And we were able to finally resolve that case by catching the suspect who was attempting to flee to Mexico. And that young man's family and Larry Stevenson and some other people within the city began what they what we have termed the Medina Alert. We started it in Denver just as a policy where we will contact all the news media immediately. And it's broadcast on the police radios, the type of vehicle we're looking for and a license plate and any descriptions that we have. Then a couple of years ago, it was introduced as a bill in the state legislature and it was passed into law. And now that allows us to notify the state Colorado Department of Transportation and they will put that information on the variable message boards that are on the highways throughout the state of Colorado. Sure. It went out probably around 11 o'clock. I don't have the exact time, but I was notified of this incident at around 9 30. And it was already in the works to get it published as soon as possible. So it went out, they typically run for about a 24 hour period. And then we can work with the state to extend that if necessary. Obviously, they have traffic situations that they have to broadcast and they may have other emergency things that they have to put on those boards. So we we have to be sensitive to the needs of CDOT as well. Lots of residents out there that said that there was a pedestrian that said it's sometimes difficult to get across that intersection because people going along Park Avenue are usually and they said they do see you guys working radar here. So I know you can't think of every intersection in town. But does that one ring a bell to anybody that there aren't crosswalks in four ways there? And they said you we did observe people going very fast. He's found certainly again, it's what we would describe as a complex intersection. You've got multiple lanes of travel in several directions and all that kind of approach. Our traffic engineers, they do a tremendous job in analyzing each intersection, the distance required to cross it and how much time and installing pedestrian signals and things and you are correct. We do do enforcement activities there. It's just we try to bring all of that together along with our education efforts through grants that we receive from CDOT. So it's it's not an easy problem. That particular intersection we haven't had any significant issues in a while. There were more than two I can tell you that that were right around there and that did observe what occurred. So that's about all I can really say about that. Certainly, we think that anytime we have an incident like this, we would like to see them resolved within a few days. In the past, it's sometimes taken us a week or more to catch up with folks. But timing is crucial. We have officers who are actively looking for this vehicle. And with your help, we will have people all over the state of Colorado that are helping us to find this vehicle. So yeah, the sooner we can locate it and find out what happened, the better. Well, we have a serious bodily injury to someone. We have enough information in the form of a license plate number vehicle description. And those are the required elements for the Medina alert. So anytime there's serious bodily injury or fatality involved, that's when we can authorize a Medina alert. At this point in time, we don't have any estimates of the speed. But as you all know, and I've stood up here and told you before, when you have a car that's two to 3000 pounds, and it's a person even at a slow speed, it can do a lot of damage. Yes, ma'am. Certainly it again, it is a we believe it's a 1998 Lincoln town car. It's going to have four doors. Those cars have pretty long noses on the front end. And this particular color has been described as a metallic blue gray. At night, it certainly would look black or even dark blue. It just kind of depends on how the light hits it. So if if somebody sees a dark vehicle, matching similar description, older model town car, have them give us a call it if it's missing a passenger side mirror, then we're definitely interested in taking a look at it. We had one call this morning that turned out to not be the vehicle involved. Oh, certainly. I mean, we don't have their side of the story. We don't know what it was that they even experienced. We're pretty confident that they knew they hit someone just based upon the damage and the debris that we found at the scene. But coming forward is always the best option. Thanks.