{"id":232690,"date":"2025-09-18T17:43:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T21:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=232690"},"modified":"2025-09-18T17:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T21:43:31","slug":"hit-and-run-suspect-caught-after-deadly-crash-that-killed-elderly-pedestrian-in-peach-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=232690","title":{"rendered":"Hit-And-Run Suspect Caught After Deadly Crash That Killed Elderly Pedestrian in Peach County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Between the Lines:<\/strong> Investigators tracked the suspect using a combination of physical evidence from the crash scene and FLOCK camera footage that followed the vehicle&#8217;s path from Georgia to South Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Sources:<\/strong> Georgia State Patrol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=53]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":207683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"above","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8900,19221,19219,19220],"class_list":["post-232690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-hit-and-run","tag-james-oates","tag-javeus-montgomery","tag-south-carolina","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}