UPDATED: 4:20 p.m.
Shattered glass and pieces of a car were left strewn about on the sidewalk Tuesday morning at Eighth Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue, where police say 27-year-old Ajay Agnihotri was killed.
Around 9 p.m. Monday, police said the driver of a gray Hyundai sped the wrong direction down Eighth Street — a one-way street — striking Agnihotri as he crossed at the intersection. The impact was so violent that he was knocked out of his shoes.
Officers found the damaged car a few blocks away, at Eighth and Berks streets. The front of the vehicle is damaged, and the windshield is smashed.
“We have the vehicle in custody,” Accident Investigation Division Capt. Mark Overwise said. “We know that it is the vehicle.”
Overwise said it’s only a matter of time until they find the driver.
Warren Allen, who lives in a house on the corner, said his surveillance camera captured the horrific moments — and the driver getting away.
“Had no intentions on stopping,” he said. “Very, very radical.”
Allen estimated the driver was going up to 50 miles an hour down the one-way street.
“As for anybody to have a heart like that to run off and leave a person, just no consideration,” he added.
Agnihotri was a fourth-year political science and economics double major from Lancaster County, according to the university.
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