A Beaver County man has been charged with homicide by vehicle while DUI after police said he hit and killed a child on a bicycle and drove away.
The Rochester Borough Police Department said officers were called to Pennsylvania Avenue shortly before 5 p.m. on Friday for reports of a boy who was unresponsive after wrecking his bike. Police said they found the boy, 9-year-old Therman Wallace, on Lacock Street, and medics pronounced him dead at the scene.
According to court paperwork, surveillance video showed 53-year-old Thomas Earl Cole crashing his Chevrolet truck into the boy at the intersection of New York Avenue and Lacock Street before driving away…