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TACOMA, Wash. — An Auburn woman was arrested in connection with a fatal hit-and-run early Thursday morning, police said.
🚨All southbound lanes are currently blocked on I-5, just south of Portland Ave. in @CityofTacoma.
— Trooper Robert Reyer (@wspd1pio) November 25, 2021
Troopers, @TacomaFire, and @wsdot_tacoma are at the scene.
Traffic will be diverted around that location. Please use alternate routes! #TrafficAlert pic.twitter.com/DbngphxdYg
Police responded around 3 a.m. Thursday to a crash on I-5 just south of Portland Ave. in Tacoma.
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.
Troopers later located the causing vehicle, a gray Jeep Wrangler, but it was abandoned.
A 25-year-old Auburn woman was arrested Thursday morning in Lakewood in connection with the crash.
#UPDATE - A 25 year-old female from Auburn is in #custody after she was located in Lakewood.
— Trooper Robert Reyer (@wspd1pio) November 25, 2021
All lanes are back open.
Our hearts go out to the friends and family of the woman who lost her life in this tragic incident.
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