Update: Pedestrian Killed in Hit and Run

Update, Nov. 7: Diedreich Adam Jackson, 29, of Red Bank, has been arrested and faces charges of reckless homicide and leaving the scene of an accident in the death of Dennis Keith Barfield of West Columbia, who was struck and killed Saturday morning as he walked along the road, police said.

Original story: A 53-year-old man was struck and killed by an unidentified driver early Saturday morning as he walked along a West Columbia road, authorities said.

Lexington County Coroner Harry Harman identified the man as Dennis Keith Barfield of West Columbia. An autopsy has been scheduled to determine the cause of death, Harman said.

West Columbia Police Maj. Jackie Brothers said Barfield was struck by a hit-and-run driver between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. Saturday while walking on the sidewalk in the 1300 block of North 12th Street between Jarvis Klapman and Sunset boulevards.

Brothers told Patch that a police accident reconstruction team was at the site Saturday morning. In the meantime, police are looking for a late-model white Chevrolet Camaro SS, probably either a 2010 or 2011 model, she said.

The car will have "extensive front-end damage," she said, adding that the collision left a debris field "at least a mile and a half long" from the scene of the accident.

"Somebody has seen that car," she said, and asked that anyone with information about the accident to call the West Columbia police department at (803) 794-0721.