Rochester Man Charged in Fatal Hit-and-Run

Rochester police have made an arrest in a fatal hit-and-run on the city's west side earlier this month.

41-year-old Paolo Smith of Rochester faces manslaughter and leaving the scene of a fatal accident.

Police say Smith was speeding backwards through a West Avenue parking lot shortly before midnight August 1st, when his vehicle crashed into 46-year-old Lashawnda Leggett and a building.

Leggett later died at Strong Hospital.

Smith turned himself in and will be arraigned tomorrow morning.


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