Crime & Safety
Suspected Hit-And-Run Driver Arrested On Casino Floor
Troopers searched a parking garage and found the suspect's car, then tracked the driver to the casino floor, where he was arrested.
ST. LOUIS, MO — A man suspected of striking and killing a homeless man in a hit-and-run accident on Interstate 55 in St. Louis Tuesday morning has been arrested at the Lumiere Place Casino, the Post-Dispatch reports.
Missouri State Highway Patrol officers searched Lumiere's parking garage and found a 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse that matched the description of the car involved in the hit-and-run, then used surveillance cameras to track the driver to the casino floor, where he was arrested.
Police said the case will be presented to prosecutors, but charges have not yet been filed. Investigators haven't determined why Montez Horton was on the highway. He appeared to have been trying to cross the interstate when the driver struck and killed him.
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