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Man sought for fatal hit-and-run death of child on the Central Coast

David von Diemar
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Unsplash

Victim was one year old Santa Maria girl.

Authorities are looking for a man in connection with what they now say was a hit-and-run collision on the Central Coast which left a child dead.

Santa Maria Police were called to the 600 block of West Cypress Street on October 13 by word of a collision involving a one-year-girl. Efforts to save her were unsuccessful.

After an investigation, detectives released the name of a man sought for the fatal collision.

Federico Garcia Galvez of Santa Maria is wanted on a charge of felony hit and run causing injury or death.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.