By Pat Culverhouse

One local man is dead and another is behind bars facing multiple charges including one homicide count as the result of a hit-and-run incident in a business parking lot Friday evening.

Jacoby D. Mason, a 33-year-old Minden resident, is being held at Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Center charged in the death of 88-year-old Glennis Oliver of Minden, Chief of Police Jared McIver said.

Sometime around 8:45 p.m. Friday, Mason’s vehicle reportedly left the roadway on Talton St. and struck Oliver, who was standing beside his vehicle in the parking lot of Abraham’s store, McIver said. Oliver reportedly was transported to Minden Medical Center where he later was pronounced dead.

“The suspect, who we determined was driving while impaired, left the scene on foot following the collision which killed Mr. Oliver,” McIver said. “Our officers spoke with a passenger who was in the suspect’s car and learned his identity. We arrested him about 10 minutes later at an apartment complex near the scene.”

McIver said the suspect was taken to police headquarters where tests showed he was seriously intoxicated. 

Charges filed against Mason include vehicular homicide, DWI, felony hit and run, driving under suspension and on a warrant for driving under suspension.

This information has been provided by a law enforcement agency as public information. Persons named as suspects in a criminal investigation, or arrested and charged with a crime, have not been convicted of any criminal offense and are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.