Shawnee County authorities have charged a man with first-degree murder in a hit-and-run near a Topeka trail.
Chad Thomas Cuevas, 51, was charged Thursday and is being held on $1 million bond. Police say Emerson Downing, 41, was run over near the Soldier Trail on Monday.
Witnesses reported hearing an argument and then seeing someone run over a man and flee. Downing was found in a field near the trail and died a short time later.
Authorities have not said what the men were arguing about.
