UPDATE | Patrol seeks Jeep Wrangler in Leetonia fatal hit-skip

Published October 2, 2018 at 8:55 a.m.
Updated October 2, 2018 at 11:33 a.m.

LEETONIA

State troopers with the Lisbon post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol are looking for a Jeep Wrangler that they think was involved in a fatal hit and run accident today.

Nicholas Crookston, 30, was found about 6 a.m. on old state Route 344 near state Route 588 after he was struck by a vehicle while walking west on 344.

He was pronounced dead at the scene by the Columbiana County Coroner’s Office.

Troopers are looking for a 2007 or newer Jeep Wrangler that fled the scene.

Anyone with information can call the post at 330-424-7783.