ACWORTH -- Police in Cobb County are asking for your help finding a hit and run driver who struck and killed a 7-year-old girl Sunday night.

7-year-old Georgia girl killed by hit and run driver

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ACWORTH — Police in Cobb County are asking for your help finding a hit and run driver who struck and killed a 7-year-old girl Sunday night.

Cobb Police investigators are investigating the fatal pedestrian hit and run involving a 7-year-old child in Acworth.

According to police, the 7-year-old autistic girl had left her home unbeknownst to her parents and was walking along New McEver Road after 10 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 9, when she was struck and killed by an unknown vehicle that fled the scene. 

The vehicle should have front end damage, damage to one or both headlight assemblies, and be missing a University of Alabama vanity plate, shown below.

ACWORTH -- Police in Cobb County are asking for your help finding a hit and run driver who struck and killed a 7-year-old girl Sunday night.

Anyone with information is asked to call 770-499-3987.

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ACWORTH -- Police in Cobb County are asking for your help finding a hit and run driver who struck and killed a 7-year-old girl Sunday night.
Thom Chandler

Thom Chandler is the editor of The Georgia Sun and has been writing, editing and managing websites and blogs since 1995. He is a lifelong Georgian and one of those increasingly rare Atlanta natives.

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