ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Arlington police arrested the suspect connected to a hit-and-run that killed a North Texas Marine on her way to drills on June 23.
Investigators believe 26-year-old Josue Rodriguez was the driver of a 1975 Chevy Cheyenne pickup truck that hit 21-year-old Areauna Laws along I-20 near Matlock Road.
Laws was having car trouble and was standing outside her vehicle when she was hit.
Police said witnesses gave investigators a good description of the suspect’s vehicle and told them which way it drove off after the collision.
Officers found the truck abandoned at a nearby shopping center. Rodriguez is the registered driver of the vehicle.
Police said he initially claimed he left his truck outside a venue along Camp Bowie Boulevard West in Benbrook while attending a party.
Surveillance video from local businesses shows him leaving the venue and later abandoning it a parking lot. Investigators said it appears Rodriguez was talking on a cell phone.
Rodriguez is charged with accident involving death. He’s being held on a $40,000 bond.
Law’s family said she was engaged to a fellow Marine and had plans to get married in June of next year.
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