A Wisconsin woman is facing serious charges after allegedly being involved in a hit-and-run incident that left a Lyft driver in a coma. Following the crash, she reportedly attempted to mislead authorities by filing a false report suggesting she was the victim of a hit-and-run.

Jenni Fischer, 24, was taken into custody on December 10 and now faces charges including hit-and-run causing great bodily harm and filing a fraudulent insurance claim, according to a report by WITI.

The criminal complaint describes how Milwaukee Police were called to the scene shortly after 8:30 p.m. on December 1, where they found a 26-year-old Lyft driver who was unconscious but breathing, suffering from severe head trauma. He was rushed to the hospital, where he underwent two surgeries. Court documents from December 10 indicate that despite medical efforts, his condition was deteriorating.

Authorities noted that the driver’s white Nissan Sentra had significant damage, with the side door appearing severely mangled from an apparent sideswipe. Investigators collected evidence at the scene, including surveillance footage showing a white or gray SUV, with only its running lights on, colliding with the Lyft driver.

After identifying the suspect vehicle as a Jeep Compass, detectives searched for related insurance claims and discovered one filed on December 3—two days post-accident. This claim, linked to a Jeep Compass registered to Fischer, led investigators to dig deeper.

The insurance claim necessitated a police report, which was found to have been filed the day after the crash. Fischer used the Citizen Online Reporting portal—typically for minor incidents—to submit the report, alleging her vehicle had been struck by a hit-and-run driver while she was at work, as detailed by Law&Crime.

According to that complaint, Fischer wrote that she left work on December 1 and found her SUV damaged in the parking lot.  The report provided Fischer’s home address, and subsequently led to surveillance video showing her Jeep pulling into her building’s parking structure, with its running lights on, and park shortly after the real hit-and-run crash.

A woman in a green coat, later identified by her parents as Fischer, is seen “having difficulty” walking up a flight of stairs, bouncing between the walls and dropping her keys before catching an elevator in the lobby.

The following morning, Fischer goes back to her Jeep in the parking deck with no difficulties.

Police spoke with Fischer’s mother on December 6, and she told them the story about the hit-and-run in her daughter’s work parking lot. She also took police to a barn where Fischer’s SUV was parked — and where they saw damage consistent with the crash and white paint from the Lyft driver’s vehicle.

They showed Fischer’s mother the video of the crash, and she told them to cancel the insurance claim her daughter made since “it was not true.”

Fischer was arrested the next day at her parents’ home.

She made an initial court appearance on December 11 and was given a $20,000 cash bond. She’s due in court again on Wednesday.