Update: Name released of cyclist hit and killed

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (WTVQ) The Fayette County Coroner’s Office has released the name of the bicyclist hit and killed during a cycling event in Georgetown on Saturday.

The coroner says 57-year-old Mark Hinkel died at the University of Kentucky Hospital from multiple blunt force injuries.

The Scott County Sheriff’s Office says Hinkel was hit head-on by a truck driving on the wrong side of Lemons Mill Road at 3:39 p.m.

The sheriff says Hinkel landed in the bed of the truck and that the driver, Odilon Paz-Salvador, continued down the road and turned onto another road.

He says a deputy spotted Hinkel in the truck bed and pulled Paz-Salvador pulled over.

Paz-Salvador was arrested and charged with murder, wanton endangerment, driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident.