PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia police have a person of interest in custody in connection with a hit-and-run crash that left a 77-year-old woman dead last week.

Chopper 6 was over the 2700 block of Snyder Avenue just before 6 p.m. Monday, where officers found the vehicle connected to the crash that killed Dorothea Cathell.

The incident happened around 5 p.m. Friday at the intersection of 54th Street and Lancaster Avenue. Police say the driver was traveling eastbound on Lancaster Avenue when Cathell was struck.

After the crash, the driver reversed down Lancaster Avenue and fled southbound. Investigators say a female passenger was dropped off at a pizza shop near 56th Street and Girard Avenue.

Cathell was transported to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Police have

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