Seen this car? Driver wanted in deadly hit-and-run

CLEVELAND (WJW) — Cleveland police investigators shared a photo of a car they say was involved in a hit-and-run crash that killed a 24-year-old man earlier this month.

Officers just after midnight on Friday, April 5, responded to a report of a man who had been shot in the 18000 block of Euclid Avenue. That’s near a Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen.

Officers found a man laying face down in the street, unresponsive, with bodily injury and a possible gunshot wound. EMS workers pronounced the man dead at the scene.

The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the man as Calvin E. Aldridge, 24, of Cleveland, and determined his death was caused by blunt-force injuries to his head and skull and brain damage, caused by a car crash.

Investigators learned the man was “staggering and walking in circles in the middle of the street” near the restaurant, according to a news release from Cleveland police. He then fell and attempted to stand up, but instead sat down in the street.

A car headed east, identified as a white 1983 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, hit the man and dragged him several feet, according to the release. The driver stopped, got out, walked around to the front-passenger side, then got back in the car, reversed, then continued forward, leaving the scene headed east, according to the release.

The two-door car has a “distinct” appearance, with light-blue rims and a missing lock for the trunk, which is secured by a bungee cord, officers said. Its license plate reads “316 MC.”

Anyone who knows the car’s location or can offer information on the incident is urged to call the Accident Investigation Unit at 216-623-5295 or Crime Stoppers at 216-252-2463.