Lubbock, Texas TV reporter Patricia Villacin was arrested for hit-and-run.
SAN FRANCISCO 鈥� A Filipino American television reporter in Lubbock, Texas, was arrested for alleged hit-and-run that injured聽a pedestrian, while she was driving an SUV owned by her station.
Police said Patricia Villacin, 23,聽a journalist for Newschannel 11, ran over a pedestrian鈥檚 leg in a crosswalk and failed to stop and give aid to him.
Villacin was arrested at the KCBD聽station Thursday, September 10 after a witness gave police the vehicle鈥檚 license plate number. She faces a third-degree felony charge but is out a $5,000 bail bond. She has not issued a statement about the incident and her arrest.
The victim, Taylor Hammond, 24, was hospitalized with reportedly with multiple compound fractures to his right leg and would need further surgery, according to his lawyer.
Villacin graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2014 and interned for Dallas鈥� WFAA-TV prior to joining KCBD-TV in January 2015.
Villacin鈥檚 TV station has removed her bio page her arrest. KCBD-TV鈥檚 general manager and vice-president Dan Jackson said the station was 鈥渇ully cooperating with authorities.鈥�
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