INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped their case against an Indiana woman who was charged in a hit-and-run crash during a southern Indiana protest last summer because she died in Colorado earlier this year.
Police say 67-year-old Christi Jane Bennett was found dead in a Denver hotel room on Feb. 6.
Monroe County prosecutor Erika Oliphant confirmed Tuesday that the county dropped its case against Bennett on July 6 after learning she had died.
Bennett had been due in Monroe County court on Monday to face charges over the alleged hit-and-run in which two people were hurt. The victims were protesting an assault on a local civil rights activist by a group of white men near Bloomington last July.
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