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Des Moines woman arrested in hit-and-run crash that killed Fayette County teen

Kelli Jo Michael, 26, was arrested Friday and charged with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident in the death of Kaiden Estling.
Credit: Fayette County Sheriff's Office
Kelli Jo Michael, 26, is charged with vehicular manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident in the 2018 death of 14-year-old Kaiden Estling.

WEST UNION, Iowa — A Des Moines woman has been arrested in a 2-year-old hit-and-run crash that killed a 14-year-old on a moped. 

The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that Fayette County Sheriff Marty Fisher said 26-year-old Kelli Jo Michael, of Des Moines, was arrested Friday and charged with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident in the death of Kaiden Estling. 

The teen from Maynard was struck in June 2018 while driving a moped along Iowa 150 about 2 1/2 miles south of Fayette. 

Michael is jailed on $50,000 cash only bond. It wasn't immediately clear if she had an attorney who could speak on her behalf.

On June 26, 2020, at approximately 04:34am the Fayette County Sherif... f's Office received a 911 call of a vehicle in the ditch on Golden Road near G Avenue; approximately four miles east of West Union.

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