Through Friend, Hit & Run Suspect Says She's Sorry
DENVER (CBS4) - A friend of the driver arrested after a hit-and-run incident this week says surveillance video unquestionably shows the car that belongs to her friend.
Two people were hit and injured on Colfax in front of the Ogden Theatre on Monday night.
Taylor Jo Mathis, 21, turned herself in on Wednesday in the case and appeared in court for the first time on Thursday.
Anna Brangoccio, one of Mathis' closest friends, told CBS4 Mathis texted her about the accident.
"She just said that she hit someone. I just assumed that it was another car," Brangoccio said.
Brangoccio said that once surveillance video of the crash was released and Mathis' car was seen in the video, Mathis says she knew she would be found.
"She texted me the morning after and said that she was on the news and that she'd be going to jail," Brangoccio said.
Brangoccio says Mathis hasn't explained why she left the scene after the impact. The two victims -- a man and a woman -- were both hospitalized.
Mathis has declined to be interviewed. She asked her friends to tell her victims that she's sorry.
"She said she wanted me to take them flowers. To tell them she'd be eternally endebted to them," Brangoccio said.
Mathis is being held in jail on charges of leaving a scene of an accident involving serious bodily injury.
