Pregnant Woman Killed in Lewiston Hit-and-Run

UPDATE:

State Police say Evaristo Deus was taken into custody Wednesday morning at JFK airport in New York City after he boarded a plane bound for Haiti.

Deus was taken into custody by the New York Port Authority about ten minutes before the plane was to depart. He is being held in New York and Maine State Police are making arrangements to send two detectives there to question him and begin the process of returning him to Maine. An arrest warrant was drawn up Wednesday morning by the Maine Attorney General’s Office charging Deus with  the murder  of 32-year-old Laudrinha Kubeloso of Lewiston.

His blue SUV was located in Portland. A campus security guard spotted the vehicle about mid-morning in the parking lot of the University of New England campus.

Deus was the boyfriend of Laudrinha Kubeloso, who was struck by a SUV at the corner of Birch and Howe Streets in Lewiston about 4:30 pm Tuesday. She later died at the hospital. The case is being investigated as a domestic violence death.

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Original post:

State and Lewiston Police are asking for the public's help in locating a vehicle believed to be involved in a hit-and-run collision Tuesday afternoon that killed a woman and her unborn child.

Police were searching for a blue 2001 Suzuki SUV with Maine license plate # 6593 UJ.  The victim's boyfriend, 33-year-old Evaristo Deus of Lewiston is wanted for questioning.  Police describe him as a black male, about  5'8" and 160 pounds.

Police believe Deus was driving the sport utility vehicle when it struck 32-year-old Laudrinha Kubeloso from behind near the intersection of Birch and Howe streets around 4 p.m. Tuesday.  Kubeloso, who had moved to Lewiston from Angola during the past year, was four months pregnant.  She passed away Tuesday evening at a Lewiston hospital.

Police are asking anyone who may have seen the vehicle or the suspect to call the Maine State Police barracks in Gray at 657-3030.