Authorities to meet today to discuss fatal hit-and-run
Butler police and prosecutors are to meet today to discuss the investigation into last weekend's hit-and-run crash that killed a bicyclist.
However, police Capt. Ronald Fierst would not say if charges in the case were imminent. He also declined to say if investigators believed they know who was driving the car that killed Jayson Cramer, 21.
Cramer was riding his bike on Zeigler Avenue just a block away from his house late Friday night when a 1992 Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight hit the bike. The car took off, dragging the bicycle underneath it for six or seven miles.
Cramer died at the scene. His funeral was this morning.
Patrick L. Duncan, 29, of East Butler and Kirsten K. Frey, 26, of Butler, were in the car Frey owns and have been questioned about the fatal crash.
Police suspect the couple had been drinking in Butler earlier that night. Each voluntarily submitted to a breath test, police said, but later retained attorneys and have not spoken to police since the night of the crash.
"She was not the operator of the vehicle," said Steve Misko, Frey's attorney. "That's all she's saying."
Michael Zunder, Duncan's attorney, did not return a telephone message left at his office Thursday.
Police would not disclose the results of the breath tests. Investigators, meanwhile, are awaiting test results of forensic evidence taken from the car, as well as a state police accident reconstruction team's report.
"The investigation is still ongoing," Fierst said.