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RANCHO CORDOVA-

Fite Circle is finally quiet after a day that accelerated into agony for hundreds who work nearby at VSP Global in Rancho Cordova.

Counselors were on tap to help hundreds cope with a colleague being killed by a hit and run driver at 6 a.m. Wednesday.

Almost 12 hours into that shock deputies delivered another.

They arrested a VSP employee for the crime – Madhu Lata Singh.

Singh’s husband told FOX40 he thought his wife was missing or hurt herself when she didn’t return from work on time.

He was stunned to learn she was behind bars for taking a life at all, let alone the life of a woman who was more than just someone she saw at the office.

“She knows her,” Gurdayal Singh Parhar said.

Madhu Lata Singh (Courtesy: Sacramento County Sheriff's Department)
Madhu Lata Singh (Courtesy: Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department)

According Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies, that friend was just a block away from finishing her walk to work at VSP when Singh hit her  – throwing her body 20 to 30 feet.

Deputies located the suspect car and Singh as the potential driver while searching the area for cars with damage consistent with the victim’s injuries.

The woman killed has not yet been identified.

For two women who’ve worked for years at a company dedicated to helping others see, Singh’s relatives say the real culprit in this crash was visibility.

“It was dark at 5 o’clock in the morning,” grandson Krishnil Singh said.

Relatives insist that there were no issues between Madhu Singh and the woman she’s accused of killing.

Since there is an ongoing investigation, VSP’s corporate communications director Pat McNeil would not comment on any reports of problems between the two.

Madhu is being held at the Sacramento county jail on $75,000 bail and is due in court on Friday.