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Arlington Police Renew Plea For Help Finding Hit And Run Driver Who Killed 80-Year-Old Roy Smith

It was on January 30, 2020 when Smith was pronounced dead.

(CBS News)

March 16, 2021

ARLINGTON (CBSDFW.COM) — An elderly man in Arlington was doing a task that many do everyday — checking the mail. It was only after his wife noticed that he hadn’t come back inside the house that Roy Smith was found lying in the road in front of a neighbor’s house.

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It was on January 30, 2020 when Smith was pronounced dead and Arlington police have been searching for the person who ran him down and left him for dead ever since.

Today police and members of Smith’s family renewed their plea for help finding the driver. Roy Smith was run down in the 900 block of East Timberview Lane — in east Arlington near South Collins.

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