(Franklin, GA) — Several months after a fatal hit-and-run accident in Heard County, investigators with the Heard County Sheriff’s Office and the Georgia State Patrol are continuing to search for the driver and for answers .
The accident occurred around 8:00 PM on Monday September 15, 2019 when a pedestrian was struck and killed on Armstrong Mill Road about midway between U.S. HWY 27 and Notnomis Road near the Centralhatchee area.
20-year-old Christian North was pronounced dead at the scene that evening and authorities are asking for the public’s help in locating the driver of the vehicle that fled the vicinity.
The driver of the unknown and yet to be identified vehicle fled the scene.
Investigators originally believed North was struck by a red, dark orange, or rust colored vehicle, but further examination of the evidence later revealed that the source of the reddish colored evidence did not come from the impacting vehicle.
Christian North
This is just weird all the way around. The suitcase it seems would have been near the body. Seems like whomever hit him stopped and retrieved it? Why?! It is just weird all the way around. God bless his soul.
The suitcase was stuck underneath the vehicle and that is why it has not been retrieved at this time. So no one got out and took the suitcase it was pinned underneath the vehicle and we have not been able to retrieve it at this time.