BARTOW, Fla. – Florida Highway Patrol arrested the man who struck and killed an 18-year-old Bartow High School teen and fled the scene around 7:15 am on Wednesday.
According to troopers, following a minor crash that occurred at Bartow High School, an adult male driver who had delivered his 18-year-old daughter to school fled the scene in a 2018 Hyundai sedan
While traveling northbound on Jackson Street near Pearl Street at a high rate of speed, the vehicle struck an 18-year-old male Bartow High School student who was walking to school.
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The driver fled from that crash scene as well, leaving the victim to suffer fatal injuries. The vehicle was later located at the driver’s Polk County residence, parked inside his garage, where Troopers learned the driver then fled in a blue 2017 Ford Fiesta, which also belonged to him.
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Deputies would later locate the Ford Fiesta parked at the Brandon Mall and also located the driver inside the mall.
The driver, Edgardo Joel Rosado Perez of Lakeland, aged 41, was later arrested by FHP Troopers for leaving the scene of a fatal crash and delivered to the Hillsborough County Jail.
Anyone with information regarding this case or observes the suspect vehicle is asked to call *FHP (*347) or Crime Stoppers at **TIPS
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