Procession for late deputy expected to cause traffic in Katy on Friday

HOUSTON - The funeral procession for the late Fort Bend County Deputy Kenneth Lewis is expected to cause traffic on Katy-area highways Friday morning.

Katy traffic: Procession for fallen deputy

What we know:

The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office shared that Dep. Lewis' funeral procession will take place at 8 a.m. Friday.

The procession will travel from Schmidt's Funeral Home to Second Baptist Church — West Campus. It will travel north on SH-99, then east on the Katy Freeway.

Drivers in the area at that time are being advised to expect delays and allow the procession to pass safely.

Deadly hit-and-run

The backstory:

Dep. Kenneth Lewis died days after a hit-and-run late last month in west Houston. It happened on West Katy Freeway near North Eldridge Parkway.

Shortly before 4 a.m. on Feb. 21, Dep. Lewis was off-duty but in uniform when he stopped to help drivers who were involved in a crash. As he was helping, a separate vehicle struck him and fled the scene.

Dep. Lewis was pronounced deceased two days later.

The suspect vehicle is described by investigators as a black or dark-colored Honda sedan.

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What we don't know:

There is no information or description of the hit-and-run suspect.

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