Parker Man Convicted Of Fatal Hit-And-Run

SEDALIA, CO — A Parker man was convicted of killing a motorcyclist and leaving the scene in the pickup he was driving, according to a release from the district attorney. Ronald Hargrove, 49, was found guilty of vehicular homicide by reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident involving a death.

The victim, Suzanne Weston, also of Parker was 69 years old. She was riding her motorcycle on U.S. 85, waiting at the light to turn left onto Colorado 67 toward Sedalia.

That's when Hargrove drove up in a Dodge Ram. "The truck went from theright lane into the left turn lane and cut off other witnesses in a separate vehicle on scene. The truck hitWeston and continued off the right side of the southbound lanes, through a ditch, onto the frontage road," the release says.

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Hargrove then got out of his pick up, looked at Weston, got back in and drove off.

Witnesses got Hargrove's license plate number and he was arrested soon after by a Douglas County deputy. He admitted to fleeing the scene, the release says.

“After driving into another human being and mortally wounding her, Hargrove got out and looked at what he had done. Confronted with the decision to be humane and choose personal responsibility over self-preservation, this gutless “man” put himself above the victim he made and the law,” said District Attorney George Brauchler.

Hargrove is set to be sentenced on May 28. Class 3 felonies generally range between four and 12 years as a sentence and class 4 felonies typically carry sentences between two and six years.