A 19-year-old Brick man has been charged by a grand jury in a hit-and-run accident last year that claimed the life of a Lakewood Bochur.

An Ocean County grand jury recently handed up an indictment charging Paul G. Kulha III with knowingly leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in death.

That is a second-degree crime carrying a prison term of 5 to 10 years, upon a conviction.

The indictment alleges that Kulha left the scene of an Oct. 5 Lakewood accident that resulted in the death of 17-year-old Shalom Werther Z”L.

Police said Werther was crossing Cedar Bridge Avenue, near Melville Avenue, shortly before 8 p.m. when he was struck by a car. Werther was transported to Kimball Medical Center in Lakewood, where he was R”L pronounced dead.

Authorities collected pieces of the vehicle that were left behind at the accident scene and arrested Kuhla the following day. Kuhla was freed from the Ocean County Jail after posting $50,000 bail a day after his arrest, according to court records.

(Source: APP / YWN)