Updated: 12:15 PM CST January 28, 2021
ST PAUL, Minn. — Prosecutors say a Maplewood man spent hours drinking at a bar before he allegedly struck and killed a pedestrian, then fled the scene.
Robert Wilson Kinney was charged with criminal vehicular homicide-leaving the scene Thursday in Ramsey County.
A criminal complaint details the evening of Friday, Jan. 22, when 68-year-old John Benjamin was hit by a vehicle while walking near the intersection of McKnight Road and Margaret Street. Officers responded to calls of a man down shortly after 8:30 p.m. and found Benjamin laying in a snowbank. He died on the scene.
Investigators on the scene recovered debris that appeared to be part of a vehicle’s lights, reflector, and passenger side mirror from the roadway. Those parts were taken to Bonfe Auto Body, where they were identified as likely being from a gray 1997-2003 Chevy Malibu.