Jayden Ryan Wallace, 18, was behind the wheel when high school teacher Jason Hughes was fatally run over in a prank gone wrong earlier this month
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- The Georgia teenager who was driving the car when beloved high school teacher Jason Hughes was killed was not operating the vehicle “in a dangerous or unsafe matter,” his lawyer said
- Hughes was run over and killed in an alleged prank that went wrong earlier this month
- Charges against driver Jayden Ryan Wallace, 18 — as well as the four other teens involved — have since been dropped
When Georgia high school teacher Jason Hughes was run over and killed in an alleged prank that went wrong earlier this month, Jayden Ryan Wallace, one of Hughes’ students, was driving responsibly, according to his lawyer.
Graham McKinnon, Wallace’s lawyer, told TMZ in a statement that the 18-year-old was not driving his pickup truck “in a dangerous or unsafe matter” when the teen, with four other individuals in his car, ran over Hughes, after the teacher tripped and fell into the road outside his home.
McKinnon, who described Hughes as a “mentor” to his client, said it would not be “appropriate to charge a crime,” claiming that the incident was accidental…