{"id":235034,"date":"2026-05-18T09:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235034\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:17:25","slug":"teenager-arrested-after-suny-student-dies-in-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235034\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager arrested after SUNY student dies in hit and run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">POTSDAM, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; An 18 year-old was arrested after fleeing the scene of a hit and run that killed a SUNY Potsdam student.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">20 year-old Emily Mae Smith of Greenville, N.Y. was hit by a car just after 3 a.m. Saturday morning on Pierrepont Avenue, which borders SUNY Potsdam\u2019s campus. She was taken to the hospital, where she would later die of her injuries. SUNY Potsdam said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.potsdam.edu\/news\/suny-potsdam-alert-tragedy-update\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.potsdam.edu\/news\/suny-potsdam-alert-tragedy-update\">statement<\/a> that she was a sophomore business major, and part of the women\u2019s basketball team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say after hitting Smith, the driver, 18 year-old Jakob Krise of Brasher Falls, N.Y. sped away from the scene. He was later found and arrested around 7 a.m. the same day. He\u2019s now facing multiple charges, including leaving the scene of a crime that would result in death, and driving while intoxicated. He is set to appear in Potsdam Town Court Wednesday, May 20 at noon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The university said they were making plans for a special commemoration for Smith, and at graduation Saturday, they held a moment of silence in her honor. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POTSDAM, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; An 18 year-old was arrested after fleeing the scene of a hit and run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[473,9,11,10,49,51,50,56,2306,2325,1634,1235,1631,49551],"class_list":["post-235034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-hit-and-run","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-ny","tag-potsdam","tag-suny-potsdam","tag-vermont","tag-vt","tag-wcax","tag-wcax-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}