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Cops urge suspect in nun's hit-run death to surrender

Sister Jacqueline Walsh, 59, was killed in Water

Photo credit: Handout ; Danielle Finkelstein | Sister Jacqueline Walsh, 59, was killed in Water Mill by a hit-and-run driver, police say. Mourners gathered for a service that drew hundreds of people to St. Edward Confessor Church in Syosset. (July 10, 2012)

Southampton Town police Wednesday urged the suspect in a hit-and-run crash that killed a beloved Syosset nun on Monday to surrender.

Southampton Town Police Chief William Wilson said the 30-year-old man they suspect in the death of Sister Jacqueline Walsh, 59, should "do the right thing and turn himself in."

That man "isn't making himself readily available to law enforcement," the chief...

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