Possible settlement on horizon for fatal hit-and-run lawsuit A judge may close the book later this month on a wrongful death lawsuit filed in the wake of an alleged confession by a hit-and-run driver. The family of Melissa Lech, who was 20 when she was hit by a car while walking on McDonough Street in August 2008, sued David McCarthy IV, 28, after he told Lech’s sister he was driving the car that hit her. Last summer, Lech’s family filed a wrongful death ... [News Source]