Police far from solving fatal hit-and-run case

The Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office is still far from figuring out who hit and killed Robert Edwin Elbel, 80, with a car and drove off Thursday night.

Elbel had stepped off a bus and was about to cross Highland Drive near 3500 South when he was hit.

Witnesses reported seeing a red Ford Mustang drive away from the scene, but deputies determined the car is not the one that hit Elbel, said sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Paul Jaroscak.

The car's owner said she saw Elbel lying in the street and got out of her car to see what happened, Jaroscak said. Eventually, a crowd gathered, and when the Mustang's owner drove away, someone memorized her license plate and told investigators.

But deputies looked underneath and around the front end of the car and did not find any damage, which would be expected if the car was involved in the hit-and-run, Jaroscak said.

"Which means we have absolutely no clue," he said.

Anyone who finds a vehicle with suspicious damage to its front end or windshield should call the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office at 743-7000.