Bicyclist killed in Chinatown hit-and-run

A bicyclist was killed in Chinatown Thursday night after a driver hit him and fled, Houston police said.

A man was riding his bicycle eastbound on Town Park Lane around 11:15 p.m. when a gray car struck him from behind.

The driver didn't stop, and the man died at the scene, said Sgt. R.A. Gonzales of the Houston Police Department.

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He was riding on the shoulder, possibly in a moving lane of traffic, on Town Park near Westline when he was hit, Gonzales said.

The man, who has not yet been identified, was 32. There are no witnesses at this time.

This is the second bicyclist in Houston who has died in a collision in two days.

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A woman died after she was struck by a driver in a Jeep in south Houston on Wednesday night, police said. A Jeep Grand Cherokee hit the bicyclist on the South Beltway 8 frontage road near Dickinson Road, near the Beltway's intersection with the Gulf Freeway, police said.

She was riding her bicycle in the middle of the inside lane when she was struck, police said. She didn't have lights on the back of her bicycle.

Anyone with information is asked to call Houston Crime Stoppers at 713-222-8477.

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