TACOMA, Wash. — An Auburn woman was arrested in connection with a fatal hit-and-run early Thursday morning, police said.
Police responded around 3 a.m. Thursday to a crash on I-5 just south of Portland Ave. in Tacoma.
Troopers later located the causing vehicle, a gray Jeep Wrangler, but it was abandoned.
Trooper Robert Reyer tweeted the collision was a fatality crash and the causing driver left the scene of the accident.
The victim, Kimberly Rokpeter of Lakewood, was identified by the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office on Monday.
A 25-year-old Auburn woman was arrested Thursday morning in Lakewood in connection with the crash.