A South Carolina man has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run earlier this month.
Irving B. McMurtry Jr., 35, of Beaufort, S.C., turned himself in to the Rockdale County jail Sunday, a week after a July 6 wreck on Interstate 20, according to a news release from the Rockdale County Sheriff's Office.
McMurtry is accused of hitting 21-year-old Isaac Akwara, of Covington, on I-20 and leaving pieces of his Cadillac Deville behind as he fled the scene. Akwara was taken to an Atlanta hospital by a medical helicopter.
The Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office said an insurance adjuster helped identify the South Carolina resident. The adjuster called Conyers police after processing a claim on a vehicle in Conyers matching the description police distributed to several media outlets.
When police went to the residence where the claim was processed, McMurtry was already gone, but they found out more about him and pursued him in South Carolina. McMurtry was arrested on charges of hit-and-run, serious injury by vehicle, failure to maintain lane, and reckless driving. Possible charges of making false statements and the false report of a crime could be levied against McMurtry, according to the news release.
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