ST. LOUIS • A man suspected by police in a fatal hit-and-run here has been charged in Illinois with trying to destroy evidence of the crime, officials said Monday.

St. Louis investigators arrested Eric F. Peterson, 29, last week, according to police records, but the circuit attorney’s office took their request for manslaughter charges under advisement, pending development of further evidence.

On Friday, the Madison County state’s attorney’s office charged Peterson with obstruction of justice, alleging he tried to conceal evidence by transferring a motor vehicle “for the purpose of scrapping.” Officials said he was not yet in custody Monday. Bail was set at $35,000.

Amber Wood, 23, of St. Louis, was hit and killed about 1:50 a.m. April 27 while crossing the 700 block of South Broadway, near Broadway Oyster Bar. Another pedestrian suffered lesser injuries.

The car sped off, but officers said they later found the suspected vehicle, a 2002 Pontiac Grand Prix linked to Peterson, near a scrap yard in Madison.