Driver confesses to fatal hit-and-run in TV interview, gets arrested

Lights, camera, jail.

A motorist suspected in a fatal hit-and-run was nabbed by police not long after he confessed during an interview with Boston TV station WFXT on Wednesday.

The 23-year-old suspect, Phocian Fitts, spoke to a WFXT reporter after he was questioned by authorities in connection with the death of an elderly pedestrian in Brighton.

“Right now, I’m not worried about nothing,” Fitts said in the interview. “I’m not a stone-cold killer. I didn’t do nothing on purpose. People hit and run people all the time, it just happened to be an unfortunate situation where I was driving.”

Police say the victim, a man in his eighties, was struck by a car while crossing the street about 1 p.m. Wednesday. The victim was later taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to a press statement released by the Boston Police Department.

The vehicle involved in the crash left the scene, but officers tracked the car using its license plate number. However, Fitts, the driver, was later released by officers due to his limited statements during questioning, according to WFXT.

A reporter caught up with Fitts — and got the story of a lifetime when he confessed on camera.

In the WFXT interview, Fitts goes into great detail about the moments leading up to the fatal incident, admitting he was “driving too quick” and “couldn’t really stop.”

“As the guy was walking, the light is green, I’m driving and I’m pressing the horn … beep beep. It was either I was going to die and crash into a pole — so when it came down to it, accidents happen,” the suspect said.

Fitts faces charges of motor vehicle homicide and leaving the scene of an accident after causing death and was held on $10,000 bail, according to WFXT. He was reportedly already on federal probation for assaulting a mailman in 2014.