A woman from Wisconsin is facing charges in relation to a hit-and-run incident after allegedly attempting to submit a fraudulent insurance claim for her car.

Jenni Fischer, 24, has been formally accused of a hit-and-run resulting in serious injury, linked to an accident earlier this month that left a 26-year-old Lyft driver in a coma. According to details in a criminal complaint accessed by Law&Crime, authorities located the suspect’s vehicle after Fischer reportedly attempted to claim insurance for her Jeep SUV just two days following the incident. In her claim, Fischer alleged that she discovered the right side of her vehicle damaged, with a cracked windshield and a broken rearview mirror, upon returning to the parking lot from her workplace.

However, surveillance footage from the night of the accident allegedly captured Fischer’s Jeep striking the Lyft driver, contradicting her account of the vehicle’s damage.

The criminal complaint indicates that Milwaukee Police Department officers responded to the crash at 8:40 p.m. on December 1. Multiple 911 calls reported a pedestrian, later confirmed to be the Lyft driver, being hit in what appeared to be a hit-and-run. The victim was found unconscious but breathing, suffering from severe head injuries, and was rushed to a nearby hospital.

Authorities have revealed that the driver has undergone two brain surgeries since the accident and remains in a coma, with his condition deteriorating.

Authorities said the driver’s side door of the alleged victim’s white Nissan Sentra was “mangled and crushed backwards,” consistent with the vehicle being “sideswiped” by another vehicle. Evidence of the suspect vehicle was found at the scene. After viewing surveillance video that captured the moment of impact, investigators determined that the suspect vehicle was a white or gray SUV with only its running lights on.

Closer inspection of the surveillance video pointed to the suspect vehicle being a Jeep Compass. Investigators searched for insurance claims made for a Jeep Compass in recent days and found one made on Dec. 3, two days after the crash. The VIN provided for the Jeep in question was tracked back to Fischer. But that claim required a police report.

When Milwaukee Police Department officers looked into reports filed with the department, they found one through the Citizen Online Reporting portal, which is meant to be used for minor crimes such as theft or vandalism, not motor vehicle crashes. Police found a report matching the number Fischer provided to the insurance company, filed on Dec. 2, the day after the crash.

According to the complaint, Fischer wrote in the report that she came out of work on Dec. 1 and found her Jeep damaged in the parking lot.

The allegedly false police report led officers to Fischer’s home address. Police obtained surveillance video footage from the parking structure connected with the address and saw the gray Jeep, with just its running lights on, entering the structure and pull into a spot at 8:41 p.m. on Dec. 1. A blonde woman in a green coat, later identified as Fischer, appears on the video “having difficulty” walking up a flight of stairs and “coming in contact with both sides of the staircase at various points in time.” Fischer also dropped her keys as she tried to enter the building’s lobby.

While in the lobby, Fischer reportedly “lean[ed] against the wall” until an elevator arrived.

The next morning, Fischer was seen walking back to her Jeep and “[did] not appear to have difficulty walking down the stairs.”

On Dec. 6, police went to an address belonging to Fischer’s parents. Fischer’s mother confirmed that her daughter had been involved in a car crash, but cited the story from the allegedly false police report. She brought the officers to a barn where Fischer’s Jeep was parked. Officers found damage consistent with the crash as well as white paint from the Lyft driver’s Nissan. The Jeep was towed as evidence.

Officers showed Fischer’s mother the surveillance video from the collision, to which she responded, “Jesus Christ.” She told police to cancel the insurance claim made by her daughter “as it was not true.”

Both Fischer’s mother and father identified their daughter as the woman in the green coat. Fischer was arrested at her parents’ house on Dec. 7.

Fischer was booked into the Milwaukee County Jail and charged with hit-and-run involving great bodily harm and making a fraudulent insurance claim. After a court hearing on Dec. 11, her bond was set at $20,000 cash. Her next hearing is scheduled for Dec. 17.