Enterprise Rent-A-Car refused to help find hit and run killer of Marine

Troopers seize car suspected in Marine's death
By Jamal Thalji, Times Staff Writer
In print: Wednesday, June 25, 2008



PORT RICHEY — The Florida Highway Patrol trooper at the door was looking for a car that killed a motorcyclist on U.S. 19.

The first clue the trooper might be at the right place: Two small children came up and asked him, are you here to see the car that hit the motorcycle?

That's what happened on Saturday, according to an FHP search warrant, before troopers got a court order to seize the vehicle they think was involved in the June 18 hit-and-run crash that killed Nicholas Burns Jr.

The 22-year-old Marine reservist and Citrus County resident was set to deploy to Iraq in December. His funeral was on Tuesday.

After last week's crash, the FHP asked for help in finding the vehicle, described as a gray sedan with a spoiler on the back.
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