Lawrenceville, GA, May 9, 2026: A 67-year-old man has been charged in connection with the hit-and-run death of a 3-year-old boy in Lawrenceville, after investigators identified the driver as Rohitbhai Patel of Snellville, according to the Lawrenceville Police Department.
Patel faces charges of felony hit-and-run and second-degree vehicular homicide after police said he struck and killed Maxence, a 3-year-old boy who had wandered out of his family’s apartment in the early morning hours of April 26.
According to police, officers responded at about 5:13 a.m. to reports of a missing child at an apartment complex on East Crogan Street. While searching the area, officers found the child lying unresponsive in the roadway along Winder Highway near Stanley Court…