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01/02/2020 11:00 PMAt press time, no arrest had been made in the Christmas Eve hit-and-run incident that took the life of Old Saybrook cyclist John Ingalls, though the Connecticut State Police has a vehicle in its possession and has identified a person of interest.
Ingalls, 36, was struck by a car on Christmas Eve while riding his bicycle on Spencer Plains Road in Westbrook. Ingalls was thrown from his bicycle; the vehicle that hit him did not stop. He was transported to Yale New Haven Hospital by Westbrook emergency services and died the following Saturday, Dec. 28.
Police, who were called to the scene at around 4:50 p.m. on Dec. 24, believe Ingalls and the driver of the vehicle were traveling in the same direction—westbound—and that Ingalls was struck from behind. A car part was discovered at the scene that led police to believe that the vehicle that struck Ingalls was a gray or silver 2007 to ’09 Acura MDX.
“We do have a suspect vehicle that we have seized that is waiting in evidence to be processed,” Trooper Benjamin Borelli of Troop F told the Harbor News.
“[W]e have a suspect in mind,” Borrelli said; as the investigation was active, however, he would not provide any details.
Borelli also said that police were creating a “sketch map...with measurements from the scene” that will reveal how far apart Ingalls’s bicycle was from his body when he was found by first responders—an indication of how fast the vehicle was driving.
Ingalls graduated from Old Saybrook High School in 2002 and earned an associate’s degree in electronics from the New England Institution of Technology in Rhode Island. At the time of the accident, he was a resident of the Ivoryton section of Essex and for the past 10 years worked as an “independent contractor delivering the Hartford Courant to Killingworth and surrounding towns,” according to his obituary.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Trooper Borelli at 860-399-2100.