Charles MaginThe arrest of a suspect last week in the January hit-and-run death of a Rossville man in a wheelchair came about through cooperation by numerous law enforcement agencies, a Georgia State Patrol spokesman said.
Charles Magin was arrested Friday in the death of Michael Lewis Burns. The spokesman, Cpl. A.B. Gideon, said the arrest came out of an investigation by the Lookout Mountain Judicial Drug Task Force that led the GSP to the car.
The hit-and-run happened about 1:30 p.m. Jan. 24 as Burns, 57, was traveling in an electric wheelchair on the shoulder of Indian Avenue in Rossville. According to witnesses, a white or silver car that looked like an Acura hit Burns’ wheelchair, stopped momentarily and then continued south on Indian Avenue, Gideon said.
For weeks following the incident, Sgt. Tommy Sturdivan, head of the GSP’s Specialized Collision Reconstruction Team, made public appeals for anyone with information about the case to come forward.
Sturdivan and his team developed a composite image of the damage the car would have sustained and had area agencies including the Chattanooga Police Department, the Tennessee Highway Patrol, the Rossville Police Department, the Walker County Sheriff’s Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation on the lookout for cars matching that description.