Lizzie Kaboski

CROWN POINT — Police caught up to a Hebron man who fled the scene of a crash that killed a motorcyclist late Saturday night and learned he believed he had struck a deer, according to court documents filed this week.

Leevi Taylor, 25, was charged Monday with felony leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death in the alleged hit-and-run crash that killed Jared Klassen, a probable cause affidavit shows.

Taylor was driving in a gold Ford Ranger around 11:30 p.m. when he struck Klassen, who was riding a cream-colored motorcycle with a red and black frame near West 133rd Avenue and State Road 55 in Crown Point, the affidavit said. Investigators with the South County Crash Reconstruction Team discovered Taylor hit Klassen from behind based on the damage to the back of his

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