(Valentine, NE) – Multiple media outlets report a man from Arkansas was arrested Wednesday in connection with a fatal, hit-and-run bicycling event that left a Pottawattamie County (IA) man dead. 35-year-old Adam Earl Joe Cooper, of Arkansas, is charged with felony motor vehicle homicide and leaving the scene of accident, in the death of 82-year-old Larry Lynn Covalciuc, from Council Bluffs.

Authorities say Covalciuc was participating in the June 25-30 Tour de Nebraska 350-mile bike ride across Nebraska. His body was found laying on the north shoulder of Highway 20, west of Valentine, NE, the morning of June 29th.