Biyclist struck and killed by unmarked police car in Norwalk, Conn.

A bicyclist was struck and killed Monday nighttime by an unmarked constabulary conveyance successful Norwalk, Conn.

The incidental happened conscionable aft 6 p.m. astatine the intersection of Connecticut and Fairfield Avenues, Norwalk Police Chief James Walsh said successful a connection connected Tuesday.

At the clip of the crash, the constabulary cruiser was “responding to a telephone for service,” Walsh said.

The victim, identified by authorities constabulary arsenic 48-year-old Manuel Bonilla-Gomez, was rushed to a adjacent hospital, wherever helium was aboriginal pronounced dead.

According to an incidental study obtained by The Norwalk Hour, Det. Andrew Roncinske was driving eastbound connected U.S. Route 1 successful a conveyance equipped with exigency lighting.

Bonilla-Gomez, who was riding a bicycle, approached the Route 1 intersection wherever a reddish airy was displayed. He reportedly did not halt and proceeded into the intersection, wherever helium was struck by the cruiser.

The unfortunate was initially described arsenic a pedestrian, but the Connecticut State Police aboriginal clarified the idiosyncratic was riding a bicycle.

Norwalk is located connected the bluish enactment of the Long Island Sound, astir 45 miles northeast of Midtown Manhattan.