Hartford community says goodbye to beloved city clerk killed in hit-and-run NBC Connecticut [Video]

Hundreds gathered in Hartford on Wednesday to say goodbye to a retired Hartford police detective and city clerk who was killed by a hit-and-run driver.

Noel McGregor was heading back home to Hartford on Oct. 22 with his friend and pastor Keith Miller after the pair went on a fishing trip to New London, when they pulled over on Route 2 in Colchester to go to the bathroom.

That’s when police say a driver, behind the wheel of a blue Jeep Grand Cherokee, hit McGregor and kept going.

“He was at the door waiting to enter,” Miller said. “I moved my head slightly, and by the time I moved my head slightly, I felt the jerk of the vehicle. By the time I looked around, I saw the shadow of him going down.”

McGregor spent a month in the ICU and succumbed to his injuries on Nov. 22 at the age of …