The Brief
- Police identified 28-year-old Ashleigh Az’Janae Zinn using license plate readers after a hit-and-run crash.
- A 47-year-old woman died after being struck while walking in a marked crosswalk on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street South.
- Zinn was arrested in Hillsborough County and faces extradition to Pinellas County.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A woman was arrested after being accused of crashing her sedan in a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian in August, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.
St. Petersburg deadly hit-and-run arrest
The backstory:
Police say a red Kia Forte was driving south on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street South around 2 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 8, as the car approached 15th Avenue South.
According to reports, Ashleigh Az’Janae Zinn, 28, hit Kendra Dillard, 47, who was walking inside a marked crosswalk.…