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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

I hope they find the person who did this

UK student killed in hit-and-run near campus

Connie Blount came to the University of Kentucky from Utah because of her love of horses. She was on the equestrian team and was majoring in equine science, planning a future of working with horses.

Those dreams died early Sunday morning as she and a friend walked near UK's campus. A light-coloured late-model extended cab pickup truck came barrelling down the road and struck the girl, fleeing the scene, narrowly missing the friend. She died two hours later.

On the same day her parents travelled to Kentucky, their other daughter gave birth to their first grandchild.

She was a beautiful girl who was by all accounts a wonderful person. My thoughts and prayers are with her family, with her friend who witnessed this horrible event, and with those whose lives she touched.

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