GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Gainesville police on Thursday made an arrest in a hit-and-run crash that occurred Dec. 9, 2020, and involved the death of a woman.
According to the Gainesville Police Department, Joshua Alexander Figueroa was arrested and charged with failing to stop for a crash involving a death.
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Police said it happened on West University Avenue and that Margaret Paxton, 18, died in the crash.
The Police Department said through a combination of eyewitness interviews, information obtained from automated license plate reader databases, a search warrant of the location of the vehicle that hit Paxton, and a search warrant of Figueroa’s phone led investigators to the arrest.