Pho 96 open for business after hit-and-run

Patricia Calhoun March 5, 2013 10:01AM

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Federal Boulevard is full of pho restaurants, and one took a hit early yesterday morning when a fight started outside Maxim Lounge around 2 a.m., moving from the venue's parking lot out onto the street. Then a Honda Civic with a ski rack struck three people in the parking lot of Pho 96, across the street at 2990 West Mississippi.

That's the space that was the original Chopsticks China Bistro, where Tony Le and his wife, Linh Lam, opened Pho 96 just over a year ago. But despite the brouhaha outside, Pho 96 didn't miss a beat, and is open for business.

After the incident, the Denver Police Department tweeted information and photos of the suspect vehicle. Here's the first tweet....

BREAKING: Here are two photos of the suspect vehicle from last night's hit and run at Federal & Mississippi twitter.com/DenverPolice/s...
— Denver Police Dept (@DenverPolice) March 4, 2013

...and here's the second:

(CONT) Please call 720-913-STOP if you have information about this vehicle or the case... twitter.com/DenverPolice/s...
— Denver Police Dept (@DenverPolice) March 4, 2013

The victims have not yet been identified. Two middle-aged victims, a couple, were listed in critical condition yesterday; a younger victim was in serious condition. Michael Roberts reported on the initial incident on the Latest Word; read that story here.

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Patricia Calhoun co-founded Westword in 1977; she’s been the editor ever since. She’s a regular on the weekly CPT12 roundtable Colorado Inside Out, played a real journalist in John Sayles’s Silver City, once interviewed President Bill Clinton while wearing flip-flops, and has been honored with numerous national awards for her columns and feature-writing.

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