Colorado police arrest make arrest in hit-and-run death of deputy, suspect allegedly illegal migrant

Colorado police have announced the arrest of suspected illegal immigrant in connection with the hit-and-run death of sheriff's deputy Sunday.

The Weld County Sheriff’s Office has identified the suspect as Octavio Gonzalez-Garcia, according to news reports.

Gonzalez-Garcia was taken into custody Monday night by the sheriff's office, the Colorado State Patrol and Fort Collins police after searching for him.googqscp.init([[[[null,500,99,2,9,null,null,null,1]]]]);(function(){/* Copyright The Closure Library Authors. SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 */ 'use strict';/* SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 */ const c=function(a,b=null){return b&&b.getAttribute("data-jc")===String(a)?b:document.querySelector(`[${"data-jc"}="${a}"]`)}(103,document.currentScript);if(null==c)throw Error("JSC not found 103");const f={},g=c.attributes;for(let a=g.length-1;0<=a;a--){const b=g[a].name;0===b.indexOf("data-jcp-")&&(f[b.substring(9)]=g[a].value)} (function(a,b,h){var d=window;a&&b&&h&&d.ReportingObserver&&d.fetch&&(new d.ReportingObserver((e,k)=>{e=e[0];"HeavyAdIntervention"===e?.body?.id&&(d.fetch(`${a}&label=${0<(e.body.message?.indexOf("network")||0)?h:b}`,{keepalive:!0,method:"get",mode:"no-cors"}),k.disconnect())},{types:["intervention"],buffered:!0})).observe()})(f.base_url,f.cpu_label,f.net_label);}).call(this);osdlfm();

The officer killed in the incident has been identified as county sheriff''s office Deputy Alexis Hein-Nutz.

The 23-year-old officer was riding her motorcycle to work when she was struck and killed.

Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams said officials at the crime scene recovered a falsified Green Card and a fake Social Security Card from Gonzalez-Garcia's vehicle, as well as evidence suggesting he was intoxicated at the time of the crash.  

Gonzalez-Garcia has been identified as the driver in the incident, according to Fox News. Investigators say he made no  attempt to help the badly injured officer and instead hid in a nearby cornfield.