A heartbroken family is finally getting closer to justice, two months after a 76-year-old was fatally struck and killed by a driver while walking to work in Freeport.

On Monday, Nassau County police said they arrested Heidy Zelaya-Almendarez, 24, of Wyandanch.

Investigators said she was behind the wheel of the light-colored sedan that struck and killed Octavio Espinal on Saturday, Nov. 8, around 1:50 p.m.

Espinal was crossing North Grove Street at the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue near the Freeport train station when he was hit, police said. He died about a week later, according to his family, who told News 12 that his organs were donated to help save the lives of other Long Islanders in critical need of life-saving care.

It took investigators nearly two months to make an arrest.

According to prosecutors, Zelaya-Almendarez fled the scene and it wasn't until surveillance video from her Wyandanch home showed that she tried to hide the car in her backyard.

Zelaya-Almendarez pleaded not guilty at her arraignment yesterday to leaving the scene of an incident without reporting a fatality and tampering with physical evidence.

Bail was set at $75,000 cash, which she posted, according to court records.

Her attorney, Stuart Kanoff, is throwing doubt into the investigation.

After the arraignment, he said the defense team is looking into whether Zelaya-Almendarez was actually the person driving the car that struck and eventually killed Espinal.