AURORA | Aurora’s police street camera system led officers to a Denver man suspected in a hit-and-run pedestrian fatality on East Colfax Avenue Tuesday night, police said.

Officers were called to an auto-pedestrian crash at about 6:30 p.m. on Colfax at Laredo Street, Aurora police spokesperson Gabby Easterwood said in a statement.

“The investigation determined that an adult male was crossing north across Colfax when he was struck by a GMC SUV,” Easterwood said. “The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene.”

The driver fled, she said. The pedestrian was not identified.

The city’s Real Time Information Center inside Aurora police dispatch identified the suspected vehicle involved in the crash using Aurora FLOCK cameras, posted near the scene.

Police used the license plate captured

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