Four pedestrians injured in collision with hit-and-run driver Jose Gil Ortiz-Ortiz, 18, at Fourth Street and Brookwood Avenue in Santa Rosa, California
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Santa Rosa police responded to a hit-and-run at about 1:48 a.m. near Fourth Street and Brookwood Avenue. Witnesses told police that a Ford Explorer struck several pedestrians on a sidewalk in front of a restaurant on the northwest corner of the intersection.
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