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Columbus Man Pleads Guilty To Killing Bicyclist

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published September 11, 2015 at 6:38 AM EDT
Columbus Division of Police

A Columbus man will be sentenced next month for causing a hit-and-run crash that killed a bicyclist in 2012. Matthew McQuirt has pleaded guilty to  aggravated vehicular homicide charges in the death of Robert Grimm. Prosecutors say McQuirt was driving impaired along Obetz Reese Road when he hit  Grimm, who was wearing a reflective vest.  McQuirt told police he thought he hit a deer.  
 
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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