Elaine Heyl, 37, struck and killed by alleged hit-and-run driver Andrew Acito, 29, at West Lehigh Avenue and North Mascher Street in Fairhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Police say the driver fled the scene but the vehicle was located a short time later near East Lehigh and Kensington Avenues.
The driver, a 29-year-old man, was taken into custody. There was no initial word on charges.
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Police say Acito was traveling eastbound in a Ford F-250 pick-up truck on Lehigh Avenue when he struck 37-year-old Elaine Heyl, who was in the center median of the roadway at Mascher Street.
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Rosado said he knew Heyl, an Air Force veteran who he said served in Iraq, from working at Prevention Point on Kensington Avenue, a center that provides a health clinic and other outreach services to people facing homelessness and addiction. He said she battled post-traumatic stress disorder and was never able to get the help she needed.
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