INDIANOLA — John C. McGinty Jr. was charged with felony hit-and-run that resulted in death on July 8, four days after his car allegedly struck and killed an Indianola man.

McGinty allegedly was driving the car that hit and killed Jordan Dale Adams-Wickham, 23, around 3 a.m. July 4 in the 20500 block of Nachant Drive NE in Indianola. McGinty was arrested July 7 after an anonymous tip was provided to detectives.

At his preliminary hearing in District Court July 8, Judge Marilyn Paja found probable cause to jail him and set his bail at $350,000.

Elizabeth Allen, a legal assistant with the Kitsap County Prosecutor’s Office, said McGinty was still in custody early July 9.

According to a press release issued by the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office, McGinty, of Spokane, was in town visiting family for the holiday weekend.

The tipster who pointed detectives to McGinty alleged that McGinty’s girlfriend, identified as Tiffany Denise Denning, was in the car when the accident occurred.

Allen said Denning has not been charged, but she could be if the investigation proves she was actively involved.

According to the statement of probable cause, written by sheriff’s traffic investigator Darren Andersson, Denning told sheriff’s detectives she was a passenger in the car McGinty was driving and that both of them were intoxicated. She said she didn’t remember being in an accident, but later saw the damage to the car and heard about the fatal accident on Facebook, and “prayed it wasn’t them that hit him,” according to the statement.

The document states that when McGinty was questioned, he initially claimed he was not the driver. When an investigator told him about Denning’s statement that he had been the driver, McGinty said that while driving, he saw someone lying in the road on his back, in McGinty’s lane of travel. McGinty said he tried to swerve around the person, “but clipped whatever was in the road,” according to the statement.

McGinty said that he didn’t see anything when he checked in the rearview mirror, but the next morning saw damage on his car, scuff marks and “what was possibly blood.” McGinty admitted to cleaning off portions of the car.

According to the statement, Andersson found damage and red body fluid or tissue on the car “consistent with what I saw present at the collision scene.”

The statement said McGinty heard about the accident in news reports and on Facebook, but didn’t come forward “because he was suspended, starting a business and had four kids to support.”

McGinty’s arraignment is scheduled for 9 a.m. July 15 in Superior Court, according to Allen. His conditions of bail include no contact with the victim’s family, no consumption of alcohol or marijuana, no operation of a vehicle without re-obtainment of his license and proper insurance, as well as an ignition interlock (which will prevent a vehicle from starting if the blood-alcohol content of the driver is too high) and no new law violations.

Allen said the Superior Court judge will issue new conditions of release at the arraignment, but they tend to be very similar to the initial terms.

The Indianola fatality was one of four fatal collisions in Kitsap County during the Fourth of July weekend.

At 4:46 a.m. July 4, a motorcyclist was killed when he tried to pass a car on Central Valley Road and Olivia Road in Silverdale.

According to state patrol, Joshua J. Doyle, 34, of Bremerton, died at the scene. State patrol investigators say the crash was caused by unsafe passing.

According to state patrol, Doyle — riding a 2012 Polaris CRO — was traveling northbound on Central Valley Road and tried to pass a car that  was making a left turn onto Olivia Road. The motorcycle struck the left rear of the car; both vehicles came to rest on the southbound ditch just north of Olivia Road.

The car’s driver was not injured, according to state patrol.

At 6:13 p.m. July 5, a 33-year-old Graham man was killed when his motorcycle collided with a car on State Route 16 Burley Olalla, four miles east of Port Orchard.

The deceased was identified by Washington State Patrol as William J. Bracking.

According to state patrol, Bracking was riding his 2007 Yamaha YZF-R1 westbound on the hard shoulder of State Route 16 when the driver of a Dodge Charger, also headed westbound, attempted to make a U-turn in front of him from lane two and went the wrong direction onto an on-ramp. Bracking’s motorcycle collided with the right side of the car.

The car’s driver, Jeffrey A. Bacon, 39, of Gig Harbor, was not injured. He is charged with vehicular homicide, according to state patrol.

A Central Kitsap man was killed after the truck he was driving crashed into a tree and caught fire on a curvy section of Tahuyeh Lake Road NW on July 5.

The Kitsap County Coroner’s Office identified the driver as Jeffrey Riley Thatcher, 31.

Thatcher was declared dead at the crash scene. There were no passengers. The crash occurred at 1:30 a.m. on the 2500 block of Tahuyeh Lake Road NW, south of the intersection with NW Holly Road.

Engine and medic units from Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue and patrol deputies and traffic investigators from the Kitsap County Sheriff ’s Office responded to the crash after multiple 911 calls came in.

Sheriff’s deputies located a 1999 Chevrolet 2500 pick-up truck in the ditch of the northbound lane. The truck was fully engulfed in fire and had touched off a brush fire as well. CKFR extinguished the fires.

Deputies discovered Thatcher’s body nearby. Thatcher was not using the vehicle’s seatbelt and was ejected from the cab of the truck.

The burned shell of the truck was removed from the crash site and impounded as evidence.

Preliminary investigation indicates that the pickup truck was heading southbound on Tahuyeh Lake Road at a high rate of speed when the driver failed to negotiate a 30 mph curve. The truck veered off the roadway, struck a tree and burst into flames.

Investigators measured skid marks more than 730 feet in length on the road.

The county’s forensic pathologist will conduct an autopsy. Autopsy procedures include toxicology tests to determine any possible impair- ment of the driver due to the use of alcoholic intoxicants or drugs.

The Kitsap County Coroner will make a determination as to the cause and manner of death.

Anyone who may have information about this crash may contact Deputy Andrew Aman, sheriff’s traffic unit, at 360-337-4634. Reference report K15-006397.

— Richard Walker contributed to this article.