A Lowndes County man is in law enforcement custody and a woman in a Jackson hospital after a hit-and-run early Friday morning.
Deputies with Lowndes County Sheriff's Office responded to a call on Hughes Road at about 12:45 a.m. where they found a 46-year-old Columbus woman had been struck by a vehicle, according to an LCSO press release. The suspect vehicle had left the scene of the collision by the time authorities arrived.
About an hour later, investigators arrested Charlie Tamar Owens, Jr.,
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