A 23-year-old Fort Valley man is in custody for the hit-and-run death of a local 65-year-old pedestrian on Highway 96.
What’s Happening: Javeus Montgomery was arrested in South Carolina after allegedly striking James Oates, who was walking with a shopping cart along Georgia Highway 96 around 2 a.m. on July 23.
Between the Lines: Investigators tracked the suspect using a combination of physical evidence from the crash scene and FLOCK camera footage that followed the vehicle’s path from Georgia to South Carolina.
The Sources: Georgia State Patrol.
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B.T. Clark
B.T. Clark is an award-winning journalist and the Publisher of The Georgia Sun. He has 25 years of experience in journalism and served as Managing Editor of Neighbor Newspapers in metro Atlanta for 15 years and Digital Director at Times-Journal Inc. for 8 years. His work has appeared in several newspapers throughout the state including Neighbor Newspapers, The Cherokee Tribune and The Marietta Daily Journal. He is a Georgia native and a fifth-generation Georgian.
