Police from Detroit and Grosse Pointe teamed up Thursday to track down a suspected drunk driver who ran away from a crash where a new mother was killed, Shawn Ley reports on WDIV.
It happened just after 2 a.m. on Mack Avenue at Alter on Detroit's East Side, along the Grosse Pointe border.
Denice Pate and her fiancé were traveling north on Alter when another driver heading east on Mack ran a red light and slammed into them.
The couple's car flew across the intersection and wrapped around a telephone pole.
The other driver got out of his van, checked on Pate and her fiance in the car but then took off.
Police also said witnesses to the crash took the chance to steal tools out of the victims' car and also the engagement ring of Pate's finger.
Local 4 cameras were rolling as police converged on the man who was walking into Grosse Pointe about a mile away from the crash scene. He was arrested.
A warrant was requested to draw the man's blood to check his blood alcohol content.
