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Apr 1, 2009 7:30 pm US/Central
'Sorry' Note Left Near Texas Hit-And-Run Victim
Police Believe Woman Left Note Near Dead Man's Body
LEAGUE CITY, Texas (CBS) ―
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Hit-and-run victim Maurice Jones is seen in this undated photo.
KHOU/CBS
Police in League City, Texas, say a hit-and-run driver in a fatal crash apparently left a note expressing remorse near the victim's body.
An investigator who asked to be identified only as Detective Aldridge said Tuesday that no arrests have been made in the death of 34-year-old Maurice Jones.
The note was scribbled on paper from a spiral notebook. Aldridge says the note may have been written by a woman but he declined to reveal more details.
"It's a pure
speculation that it was a female, but the handwriting appears to be of
a female origin," Scott Saldridge with the League City Police
Department told CBS affiliate KHOU-TV in Houston.
The victim's mother, Roberta Jones told KHOU, "They said that they were sorry and that they had a family." Jones added, "But he had one. You know and he was my family."
Jones' body was discovered in a ditch Sunday morning, hours after he got off work at a fast-food restaurant and was walking home.
Jones was less than a mile and a half from home, reports KHOU.
"I pray that the person who did this, you know, would more than just say 'I'm sorry,'" Jones' mother told KHOU.
League City is about 25 miles southeast of Houston.
(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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