Rossville man charged in hit-and-run fatality
A Rossville man is facing multiple charges after he allegedly killed a pedestrian while driving on drugs and ultimately fleeing the scene, police say.
According to Georgia State Patrol Post 5 in Dalton:
Anthony Lee Moore, 36, of Seventh Street, was arrested Friday, Sept. 2, on charges of DUI, hit-andrun, duty to report an accident, and first-degree homicide by vehicle.
State troopers and Catoosa County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to Lakeview Drive at Paige Road in Rossville around 11:30 p.m. Sept. 2 after a witness claimed a man had been seriously injured after being struck by a vehicle.
An older white male, later identified as 60-year-old Joe Wilkinson, was taken to Cornerstone Hospital in Fort Oglethorpe but died from head injuries, reports show.
The witness told authorities that Wilkinson was hit by a green Nissan Altima and was able to provide detectives with the license plate number of the vehicle.
While Trooper James Hensley processed the crime scene, Catoosa County detectives assisted by tracking ownership of the vehicle to Moore’s mother, who said she’d recently bought the vehicle for her son.
Shortly thereafter, Moore was located at his Rossville home and placed under arrest.
Moore’s girlfriend was also in the vehicle at the time of the hit-and-run occurred. She was interviewed after Moore’s arrest, but has not been charged in the case.