A roofing contractor fatally struck a pedestrian early Friday in Maplewood and smelled of alcohol when investigators caught up with him seven hours later at work in Sleepy Eye, Minn., according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.

Jose Ronald Hernandez Pineda, 46, of Maplewood, was charged in Ramsey County District Court with two counts of criminal vehicular homicide in connection with the crash that killed Abdul Bakr Jafar, a 31-year-old from St. Paul who was found lying in the middle of Maryland Avenue near McKnight Road about 4:30 a.m.

A home’s surveillance video showed that Jafar was struck head-on by a dark-colored van while walking east in the middle of the westbound lane of Maryland Avenue, the complaint says. He was pronounced dead about 20 minutes later.

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