East Ridge police have identified a suspect in the Dec. 26 hit-and-run death of a pedestrian on Ringgold Road.
The victim, Darrell Lee Carter, was walking east on Ringgold Road that morning when he was struck from behind while crossing the road at Blackhawk Trail. The vehicle that hit him was determined to be a 2013-15 Nissan Sentra.
On Dec. 28 a 2015 Sentra was found in the possession of Rodney Maurice Hill, who had reported to police in Fort Oglethorpe that he had struck a deer, according to East Ridge police.
The Sentra was sent to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation crime lab in Nashville and found to match the suspect vehicle.
A warrant was issued for Hill through East Ridge City Court on a charge of leaving the scene of a fatal crash.