Driver Charged In Deadly Hit & Run Crash That Killed Belgium Journalist

WESTMINSTER, Colo. (CBS4) - The driver who police believe caused a deadly hit-and-run crash that killed a journalist from Belgium has been charged.

Cory Norris has been charged with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident involving death.

Eric Van Coppenolle, 47, was hit by a car just after midnight Sunday near 87th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard in Westminster. He was in Denver as part of a month-long vacation in the U.S.

Investigators say they followed a trail of car fluid that leaked at the collision scene through neighborhoods to the parked car where they found Norris, 21, nearby. Police say Norris admitted he had been drinking and shouldn't have been driving.