A 34-year-old Grants Pass man is in custody on felony hit-and-run charges that are being linked to the death of a young woman on the Grants Pass Parkway last year.

Jail records show Christopher William Turley was arrested Friday near his home on Eclipse Lane in the Redwood district. He was lodged on two counts of failure to perform the duties of a driver causing personal injury.

News reports linked the arrest to the death last June of 22-year-old Gabriella Licata of Gilbert, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix.

Authorities at the time reported Licata had arrived in Grants Pass only hours before she was hit by a car while walking along the Parkway at 12:43 a.m.

Detectives questioned a man at his home in the Redwood district after a patrol officer spotted a 2003 Chevrolet Monte Carlo that police believed was involved in the collision.

The Department of Public Safety at that time did not release the man’s name, saying further information in the case was pending completion of a report by Oregon State Police accident reconstructionists.

It remains unclear why Licata was in Grants Pass. According to a report in the East Valley (Arizona) Tribune, Licata’s mother said her daughter was 5-months pregnant and wanted to give birth to her baby in a commune in Ashland.

Licata’s mother said her a woman in Eugene bought her daughter a sandwich and a Greyhound bus ticket to Grants Pass, where a friend was supposed to pick her up.

Turley’s arrest, which corresponds to information about the suspect in June, was not immediately announced by police Friday.

The two counts of hit-and-run appear to correspond to reports the victim was pregnant.