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No charges filed in wreck that killed bicyclist on Saturday

No charges will be filed in a wreck that killed a bicyclist Saturday night on Oleander Drive.

Valente Palma Guerrero, 38, of Wilmington, died at about 11:54 p.m. Saturday, when he was struck by a minivan while riding a bicycle east in the 5800 block of Oleander Drive, according to Wilmington Police Department Spokeswoman Cathryn Lindsay.

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The minivan was driven by 47-year-old taxi driver who was traveling in the same eastbound lane when Guerrero was hit on Oleander Drive, Lindsay said.

Guerrero died at the scene.

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