Police are investigating a hit-and-run crash which left one construction worker dead along Interstate Highway 35 early Wednesday morning.
Fontino Cortes-Cruz, 36, was struck by a dark-colored Suburban, which careened into his workspace along the highway’s 11400 block. The vehicle continued on its way headed south and was later found torched outside of the city of Kyle.
Austin-Travis County EMS pronounced the construction worker dead at the scene. No other persons were injured, according to a police release.
Austin Police Department Cpl. Scott Perry said he would not speculate as to why the man would torch his own car and said he does not know why the vehicle entered the construction site.
Detectives are questioning a “person of interest” in the investigation. David Delacerda, 30, is being held in the Bexar County Jail after detectives caught up with him after learning of a recent burn victim being treated, Perry said.
Delacerda, who sustained burn injuries, was initially sent to a South Austin hospital and then transferred to a San Antonio hospital. At the hospital, he gave conflicting accounts of that night, police said.
“He told detectives he was not driving, and then, he said he was driving,” Perry said.
Delacerda could be charged with failure to stop and render aide, a third-degree felony, and is expected to be transferred to Travis County authorities.
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