Case dropped against dead woman in Indiana hit-and-run case
By CASEY SMITH, Associated Press/Report for America
Published: July 20, 2021, 1:23pm
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INDIANAPOLIS — Prosecutors dropped their case against an Indiana woman who was charged in a hit-and-run crash during a southern Indiana protest last summer after learning she died in Colorado earlier this year.
Christi Jane Bennett, 67, was found dead in a Denver hotel room on Feb. 6, according to police.
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