MURRAY — A Salt Lake man who police say is a habitual DUI offender has been arrested for allegedly hitting and killing a woman in a crosswalk in Murray in July and driving off.

Nathan Michael Portillo, 24, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail early Tuesday for investigation of murder, failing to remain at the scene of an accident involving death, reckless driving, obstruction of justice, making a threat of violence, speeding, driving on a revoked license and making an unsafe lane change.

On July 31 , just after 11 p.m., Kimberley Jean Jespersen, 53, was crossing 4500 South at State Street in a crosswalk when she was hit by a gray Chevrolet hatchback. Police say the collision was “minor” and the driver of the Hatchback stopped and talked to Jespersen, according to a police booking a

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