Pedestrian is killed in hit-and-runincident near Gallaudet University A hit-and-run driver struck and fatally injured a pedestrianThursday night near the Gallaudet University campus in Northeast, D.C. police said. The incident happened in the 1100 block of Florida Avenue about 8:30 p.m., when police found a woman who had been struck by a vehicle, said Officer Hugh Carew, a police spokesman. The woman, whom police did not identify, was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Police later found the striking vehicle, less than a mile away in the 600 block of Elliott Street NE. Authorities detained a man suspected of driving that vehicle, but police hadn't identified him as of late Thursday.