Driver charged in fatal hit and run

One man who has been charged in connection with a fatality is twenty year old Lazaro Murillo of Mahogany Street in Belize City. Murillo turned himself in to police, identifying himself as the driver who knocked down a bicyclist on December twenty-eighth near the Mahogany Street complex and then fled the scene. That cyclist, fifty-two year old Rafael Magana, died shortly afterward at the K.H.M.H. Murillo has been hit with a multitude of charges including manslaughter by negligence, driving without due care and attention, failure to stop and render aid, failure to report an accident, and causing death by careless conduct.