A North Carolina man wasted on cocaine, opiates and benzodiazepines severed the leg of a 9-year-old boy after he “veered off” a roadway and plowed the youngster into a retaining wall while he was sitting on a bike in his own driveway, cops say.
Theodore Gause, 51, is facing numerous charges — including felony serious injury by a vehicle, felony hit and run, driving while impaired, and driving while his license was revoked — in connection with the April 20 crash in New Hanover County.
A press release posted on Facebook by the Wilmington Police Department says Gause “crossed the centerline” while driving in the 600 block of South 15th Street and smashed the victim, who was “on a bicycle.”…