UPDATED: Kamloops Mounties investigating fatal hit-and-run
UPDATE: The suspect, a 31-year-old man, turned himself in to police just before 4 a.m.
Kamloops Rural RCMP have also further identified the victim as a 64-year-old man.
Both are members of the Tk'emlups Indian Band.
Investigators believe the suspect driver had been drinking before the crash but, because of the delay between the collision and his arrest, they're having a hard time determining a level of intoxication.
Police are still looking for tips from anyone with information.
ORIGINAL STORY: A pedestrian is dead after a hit-and-run collision on the Tk'emlups Indian Band reserve last night (July 20).
Details are scarce, but Kamloops Rural RCMP Staff Sgt. Doug Aird told KTW a man walking in the area of Cree Drive and Salish Road was struck and killed at about 10:15 p.m.
Mounties are in possession of the vehicle believed to have been involved, and it is being transported to the RCMP's Battle Street detachment for further investigation by forensic-identification investigators.
No suspect is in custody as of yet.
Aird said no further details about the victim are available pending notification of next-of-kin.
More information will likely be made available tomorrow.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Kamloops RCMP at 250-828-3000 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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