A teenager who was struck by a truck that then drove away Tuesday has died, Clayton County police said.
Officers were quickly able to locate both the box truck and the driver, who was arrested on several charges, including vehicular homicide.
At 7:37 p.m. Tuesday, officers were called to Walker and East Fayetteville roads in the Riverdale area on a report of a pedestrian hit, according to police. The 14-year-old boy, whose name was not released, was taken to a hospital but died from his injuries, police said.
The truck driver, Gary Wayne Freeman Jr., 35, was also charged with hit-and-run, serious injury by vehicle and driving with a suspended license, police said. The Riverdale man was booked into the Clayton County jail Wednesday morning and was being held without bond.
Tuesday’s deadly crash came days after a Fayette County high school student was killed after he was struck by a vehicle, authorities said.
That crash happened Thursday on Brechin Drive after Robert Lee Stevenson, 60, crossed into the southbound lane in a Pontiac Grand Prix and struck Russell Logan, 16, shortly after 10 p.m., the Fayette sheriff’s office said. Logan, a Starr’s Mill High School student, was taken to Piedmont Fayette Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Stevenson was arrested shortly after the crash, the sheriff’s office said. He was charged with vehicular homicide, DUI, reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident.
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