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London police arrest woman wanted in fatal hit-and-run

Brittany Lynn Boyce, 29. London Police Service

London Police have arrested the woman wanted in last week’s fatal hit-and-run.

Officers say 29-year-old Brittany Lynn Boyce was arrested just before 2 p.m. Tuesday at an address on Florence Street.

Boyce has been charged with one count of manslaughter and one count of assault with a weapon in relation to the hit-and-run on Tuesday, Nov. 21, that resulted in the death of 64-year-old Deborah Titus of London.

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Emergency responders were called to the area of Dundas Street and Ashland Avenue around 2 p.m., to reports of a woman being hit by a car.

Investigators say Titus was struck while trying to retrieve stolen property from inside a car Boyce was allegedly driving, and later succumbed to her injuries.

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A bystander, who came to Titus’s aid, had minor injuries after being dragged a short distance

Boyce is expected to appear in court Wednesday.

Anyone with information in relation to this incident is asked to call the London Police Service at (519) 661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Information can also be sent in online anonymously to www.londoncrimestoppers.com.

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