FORT PIERCE — A man accused of leaving the scene of a fatal hit-and-run crash has been identified by police.

Frantisek Hertl, 69, of the 3300 block of Sunrise in Fort Pierce, was arrested Thursday afternoon on charges of failing to remain at a crash involving death and operating a motor vehicle without a valid license.

Police said on Sunday Kevin Snyder, 31, was walking between 8 and 8:10 p.m., was hit by Hertl's car and thrown.

A passing car saw Snyder, of White City, lying in the right shoulder of the northbound lane of the 4100 block of Oleander Avenue. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced deceased.

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Hertl's roommate told police on Sunday that Hertl came home and said he had hit someone or something. When the roommate told Hertl to call the police, the roommate told police Hertl shrugged and went to bed.

On Monday, Hertl contacted an attorney.

After Hertl didn't report himself to the police, his roommate called police Wednesday.

When officers came to the men's home, they found Hertl's vehicle with damage that was consistent with hitting a person.

Hertl told an officer his roommate was "throwing me under the bus."

Kaitlin Snyder, 28, of Port St. Lucie, said her brother Kevin, one of several siblings, was a cook at a diner at U.S. 1 and Prima Vista Boulevard in Port St. Lucie.

Kaitlin Snyder said she last spoke with her brother shortly before the crash.

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“I was driving him back to his house, and we got in an argument,” Kaitlin Snyder said. “He got out of my car at the stop light (at Oleander Avenue and Midway Road) and went to walk home, and that’s when he got hit.”

Kaitlin Snyder said she and her brother were born on a military base in Texas. She said her father, who died in October, was in the Air Force.

“He actually just moved here after our dad died to be with us,” Kaitlin Snyder said.

Police said Hertl's license has been expired since 2003.

Hertl was taken to the St. Lucie County Jail where he was released Friday afternoon on a $30,750 bail bond.

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