A 21 YO from Mandeville has been arrested after a Baton Rouge hit and run that left a 44 YO man dead.
The attorney for Walter Andrew Brister IV, the Louisiana Tech student who hit and killed a man on Ben Hur Road last Saturday, said his client did not realize he was the person responsible until the following morning.
Brister is the son of former NFL quarterback “Bubby” Brister. He was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison Wednesday on one count of felony hit-and-run. The charge carries a maximum of ten years in prison.
Attorney John McLindon says he notified authorities within hours of the accident about his client’s involvement in the death of 44 YO pedestrian Jude Jarreau. He says all parties agreed that Brister would wait to turn himself in on Wednesday, mainly because Monday was a holiday and the courts would be closed.
Brister was driving a Range Rover that hit Jarreau as the pedestrian was trying to cross Ben Hur Road near Burbank Drive late Saturday night, October 8. Jarreau was an avid LSU fan and father of two.
McLindon said he was legally barred from commenting about specific evidence in the case at this point and because of that, he declined to say where Brister had been prior to the incident and whether or not he had been drinking.
Bond was set at $10,000.
