New Orleans police have arrested a man in connection to a hit and run that killed a woman on her bicycle on June 14, the department said Friday.

Police identified Jose Javier Suazo, 18, as the driver of a vehicle that killed a female bicyclist at the intersection of North I-10 Service Road and Bundy Road.

Suazo fled the scene without notifying police or seeking medical attention, according to the NOPD.

Police say the crash happened around 9 p.m. after a 2008 Dodge Caravan slammed into back of the woman’s bike and ejected her onto the road. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

The NOPD Traffic Fatality Unit later found Suazo’s the van abandoned and burned in what they say was an attempt to destroy evidence.

Suazo was booked Friday into the Orleans Justice Center on charges of hi

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