The suspect in a Route 29 hit and run crash that killed two construction workers and injured three others told court officials Tuesday he was in the country illegally, according to Montgomery County police.

Manuel De Jesus Gonzalez-Geronimo, 31, of the 1900 block of Ruatan Street in Hyattsville and originally from Guatemala, fled the scene Monday afternoon after he crashed a van into a parked truck on Route 29 in Burtonsville, authorities said.

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