GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Green Bay Police have made an arrest in connection with a fatal hit and run crash that happened Wednesday on I-43.
32-year-old Juan Manuel Zuniga was jailed on potential charges of hit-and-run involving death.
Around 11:40 a.m. officers responded to a call of a single vehicle rollover about 100 yards off the road near East Mason Street.
Investigations Commander Jim Runge says the accident occurred around 5 a.m. but the second vehicle and body of Michael De Grave was discovered over six hours later.
“One of the vehicles was towed shortly thereafter, but because of the position of the second vehicle, the vehicle that was hit was very difficult to see, particularly in the darkness.”
Police used the imprint of license plate numbers on the victim’s vehicle to help track down the suspect.
“There was significant evidence left at the scene and just by bagging up the evidence of the night on some of our calls and also calls from the sheriff’s department…this accident happened right at the corner of the city and the county,” said Runge.
Zuniga has not been formally charged in the case.
