TUCSON, AZ (AP) -
A Nogales firefighter has died from injuries he suffered after a driver ran over him with an SUV in Tucson and fled the scene.
Sterling Lytle was pronounced dead on Tuesday.
Lytle had been taken to a Tucson hospital with life-threatening injuries on June 28 after he was run over in an apparent confrontation. Lytle was off duty at the time.
Tucson police say that witnesses reported that Lytle was a passenger in a car driving down a Tucson road when an SUV pulled up behind the car and began flashing its lights and honking its horn.
The driver of the car Lytle was in pulled into a parking lot. When Lytle got out of the car to speak with the SUV's driver, the driver ran him over and fled.
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