“Gonzalez-Perez allegedly was drunk at the time. A Mexican national, he is in the country illegally and worked at a local poultry plant under an assumed identity.”

Athens Banner Herald

Teen faces adult trial in hit, run
Woman killed in June
By Joe Johnson
9/12/2008

A Clarke County Juvenile Court judge ruled Friday a 15-year-old Athens boy will be prosecuted as an adult for allegedly running over and killing a woman as she walked along Commerce Road in June.

Judge James McDonald listened to two days of testimony before he ordered the case of Able Gonzalez-Perez transferred to Clarke County Superior Court.

Juvenile court proceedings are closed to the public, and authorities would not release Gonzalez-Perez’s name while his case remained in the juvenile justice system.

Authorities say Gonzalez-Perez was at the wheel of a borrowed pickup truck the night of June 14 when it swerved onto the shoulder and hit 19-year-old Nayasheika Cooper from behind.

The driver sped off and left Cooper to die on the side of the road, according to police.

Cooper was walking with her 3-year-old son from their home on Commerce Road to a nearby convenience store.

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