Surveillance video reveals final moments of Rochester homeless woman's life

A makeshift shrine on Milton Road where Kimberly Lucier, left, suffered fatal injuries. Right, Christopher Robinson, who confessed to hit-and-run. (Rochester Voice photo; Lucier/Voice file photo; Robinson (Rochester Police)

ROCHESTER - Chilling surveillance images described in a police affidavit filed in the fatal hit-and-run arrest of a Milton man reveal the final moments in the life of a homeless Rochester woman killed while walking along Milton Road the night of June 2.

Kimberly Lucier, 60, who suffered a severe head wound in the crash, died three days later at Portsmouth Regional Hospital.

Surveillance video from Great Bay Community College and Hannaford helped police tentatively identify a white pickup as the suspect vehicle as early as June 3, the day after the accident.

According to the affidavit, "Camera angle 3 showed Ms. Lucier continuing to walk northbound on Milton Road. In all three camera angles the video shows two vehicles driving northbound shortly after Ms. Lucier. The first vehicle is an unidentified red SUV. The second vehicle is a white pickup truck. Both vehicles' brake lights are shown illuminating on camera angle 3 near Hannaford."

The store's surveillance cameras shows "the red SUV passes and Ms. Lucier continues walking northbound," the affidavit states. "The white pickup truck passes by and Ms. Lucier is suddenly no longer in the frame."

Christopher Robinson, 43, of Milton, who turned himself in to police on June 5 - the same day Lucier succumbed to her injuries - said he bolted from the scene because he "freaked out."

He said he was headed home Milton Road when the accident occurred around 10:20 p.m.

"Before I could do anything I hit her and then I just panicked," he told police during an initial interview at Rochester Police headquarters. "I saw the back of a person and then it was over and then I freaked out."

On the following Monday Robinson called his father. who arranged for representation by Shaheen and Gordon law firm attorney Timothy Harrington.

Robinson arrived for the police interview with his white 2018 Ford F-150 pickup, which showed front-end damage consistent with the crash.

Lucier, a homeless person well known as "Kimmie" and beloved among the homeless community, had been living on the street for about seven years, she told The Rochester Voice in a January 2022 interview.
Robinson was charged with felony conduct after an accident for having left the scene of an accident that resulted in death or personal injury. The charge carries a three and a half to seven year prison sentence.

Robinson's arraignment is scheduled for July 13 in Strafford Superior Court.