Driver in deadly hit-and-run in Nashville Saturday night surrenders

Meghan Mangrum
Nashville Tennessean
Tory Winters, 24, of Cabot Drive, was the driver in a deadly hit-and-run in Nashville on Aug. 8. He surrendered to law enforcement Sunday. Winters is charged with leaving the scene of a collision involving death, failure to yield involving death, failure to render aid, and failure to immediately report the collision

Tory Winters, 24, admitted to police he was the driver who struck and killed a pedestrian on Church Street Saturday night and surrendered Sunday afternoon.

Law enforcement had been searching for the driver of a 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee that hit and killed Marilyn Zindel, 67, outside the Homewood Suites on Church Street Saturday. 

Zindel, of Melbourne, Florida, had stepped out of a golf cart in front of the hotel at 706 Church Street just after 11 p.m. Saturday night when the dark-colored SUV hit her.

"Witnesses reported that just as Zindel exited and was in the roadway, the SUV, which was traveling west on Church Street, seemed to accelerate and struck Zindel," according to a release from the Metro Nashville Police Department. 

Zindel was rushed to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.

A surveillance camera caught a photo of an SUV that was potentially involved in a fatal hit and run on Church Street in Nashville on August 8. The driver, Tory Winters, surrendered to law enforcement Sunday.

Winters, 24, of Cabot Drive, called law enforcement Sunday and reported that he was the driver of the SUV. He is charged with leaving the scene of a collision involving death, failure to yield involving death, failure to render aid, and failure to immediately report the collision.

His bond was set at $5,200 Sunday. 

The Jeep was located at Winters’ apartment complex and impounded. 

The cause of this fatal collision appears to be recklessness on the part of the SUV’s driver, Metro police said in an earlier release.

The investigation is ongoing, law enforcement said in a press release Sunday.

Meghan Mangrum covers education in Nashville for the USA TODAY NETWORK — Tennessee. Contact her at mmangrum@tennessean.com. Follow her on Twitter @memangrum.