A Queens grand jury indicted an elderly St. Albans man in connection with a hit-and-run collision that killed a South Jamaica man just steps from his home in April.

Johann Rohlehr, 73, of 171st Street, was arrested Oct. 21 and booked at the 103rd Precinct, where he was charged with leaving the scene of an incident without reporting and failure to exercise due care. He was arraigned on the indictment in Queens Supreme Court later in the day.

The NYPD Highway District’s Highway Collision Investigation Squad determined that Rohlehr was behind the wheel of a black sedan traveling eastbound on Linden Boulevard on the night of Thursday, April 24, when he struck 62-year-old Christopher Gayton at the intersection of 166th Street at around 8:45 p.m. and allegedly drove away without reporting the

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