BATON ROUGE – A 22-year-old man was booked into jail Thursday after he allegedly fled the scene of a hit and run over the weekend that fatally wounded a pedestrian.
The Baton Rouge Police Department announced the arrest of Jacob Knaz, 22, on a charge of felony hit and run on Thursday.
The crash happened around 8:45 p.m. Sunday on South Sherwood Forest Boulevard, north of Airline Highway. The victim, identified only as a 32-year-old woman, was found in a nearby parking lot and taken to a hospital where she later died.
No other details related to the wreck were immediately available.
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