MONUMENT – One person is dead following a hit and run Monday morning, according to Monument Police.

Police said they were called to a hit-and-run accident around 11:45 a.m. Monday along Baptist Road.

When police arrived, they found a woman dead at the scene. The sheriff’s office says it is investigating the incident as a vehicular homicide.

According to the sheriff’s office, the suspect is an adult male driving a dark-colored Chrysler minivan with a light-colored horizontal metal strip on the side. A woman is said to have been in the passenger seat of the van.

The sheriff’s office says the van did not have a front license plate, but did have stock silver rims and damage to the front and side passenger bumper. They say it may have been a white handicapped placard hanging from the front rearview mirror.

According to the sheriff’s office, the van may have red paint marks on the front passenger side of the vehicle.

If you have information about this incident, you are asked to call the sheriff’s office at (719)390-5555.

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