The victim, Jeanne Murphy, was a member of the US Olympic Committee and a retired US Army colonel who served in the military for three decades.
Murphy, 70, was walking along Reese Avenue in Hackettstown about 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 7 when she was struck by a 2008 Lincoln MKX SUV driven by local resident Jefferson Chimbo-Pelaez, 25, who was arrested “a short time” after the crash,The mortally injured Murphy was transported to Hackettstown Medical Center and then flown to Morristown Medical Center where she was pronounced dead the following day at noon, the police department said.
She held a master’s degree in cardiovascular nursing and exercise physiology from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Maryland. A “celebration” of life for Murphy will be held on Jan. 22, at 1 p.m. in the Sitnik Theater at Centenary University’s David and Carol Lackland Center,Chimbo-Pelaez is being held at Warren County Correctional Facility, according to the Hackettstown PD.
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