Hit-and-run suspect goes to work, leaving 5-year-old boy dead on road

3years ago

Warren news, Michigan news.

A hit-and-run suspect in Michigan continued his way to work late Tuesday after fatally hitting a 5-year-old boy riding his bike.

Maurice Sumler, 22, was speeding to reach his workplace at Chrysler Plant when he struck Preston Singleton and kept on driving to work.

Warren Police said that Sumler then parked his car at a nearby Taco Bell and went to his job.

“This is a true tragedy. A 5-year-old boy on his bicycle was probably thrown maybe 80 feet. The driver continued to go northbound on Van Dyke into Sterling Heights,” Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer said.

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  • “Actually he reported to work at the Chrysler plant. It appeared he showed no remorse at all. He knew it was a young child and, knowing that he continued to go through Sterling Heights and go to work without any thought or anything – sympathy or compassion towards the 5-year-old victim.”

    The suspect’s grandmother, however, claimed that he was “not a bad kid.”

    “I know if he would have known he hit a kid, he would have stopped. He has a 5-year-old cousin. My family is not like that,” she said.

    Sumler was charged with leaving the scene of an accident causing death and is being held on a $250,000 bond pending more charges.