The Salem Police Department is seeking the public’s help to find what it described as a “vehicle of interest” captured on video shortly before officers responded to a fatal hit-and-run on Dec. 23 in West Salem.
Surveillance video that evening near where the victim was found shows the driver of a white SUV heading east on Northwest Edgewater Street, approaching Northwest Murlark Avenue, police said in a news release Monday morning.
Minutes later around 8:30 p.m., Salem police responded to a report of a man injured at the intersection.
Responding paramedics pronounced Steven C. Bishop, 63, of Salem, dead at the scene.
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The Salem Police Department asked anyone with information to call traffic team investigators at 503-588-8477.
Salme police said Monday that the collision occurred on Murlark Avenue, just North of Edgewater Street. The agency’s traffic team’s preliminary investigation determined that a driver struck Bishop then left the scene, according to the statement.
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Police said the vehicle appears to be a white Jeep Grand Cherokee, possibly a 2015 or 2016 model.
They asked the driver, anyone who knows the driver or has information about the case to call traffic team investigators at 503-588-8477.
Contact reporter Ardeshir Tabrizian: [email protected] or 503-929-3053.
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Ardeshir Tabrizian has covered criminal justice and housing for Salem Reporter since September 2021. As an Oregon native, his award-winning watchdog journalism has traversed the state. He has done reporting for The Oregonian, Eugene Weekly and Malheur Enterprise.
