Thread: GA-Teen faces adult trial in hit, run

Sep 13, 2008



johnson@onlineathens.com A Clarke County
Teen faces adult trial in hit, 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.
Teen faces adult trial in hit, run
Woman killed in June
By Joe Johnson | joe.johnson@onlineathens.com | Story updated at 11:37 pm on 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.

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.

Police investigated for a week before locating the damaged pickup and the teen at his apartment complex on Sunset Drive.

Police charged Gonzalez-Perez as a juvenile with vehicular homicide, leaving the scene of an accident, DUI, possession of alcohol by a minor and driving without a license.

His case will now be presented to a Clarke County grand jury.

McDonald heard about 10 hours of testimony during the two-day hearing.

Witnesses who testified included Athens-Clarke police officers, state Department of Juvenile Justice officials and employees of Pilgrim's Pride, the poultry plant where Gonzalez-Perez worked.

The man who loaned the truck to the teen, Mandy Drive resident Alberto Rebollar, did not testify.

Police think Rebollar may have fled to Mexico.

Cooper's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Rebollar, alleging he knew Gonzalez-Perez didn't have a driver's license and had a history of driving while intoxicated.

Although Rebollar could not be found, the company that insured his truck settled with Cooper's family for an undisclosed amount, according to the family's attorney, Kenneth Dious.

The family is pleased with McDonald's decision, Dious said.

"The Coopers are very happy about it because they want to see justice done," he said. "They didn't see how trying (Gonzalez-Perez) as a juvenile would have been justice."

Gonzalez-Perez remains held without bond at the Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center.

Originally published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Saturday, September 13, 2008




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Police think Rebollar may have fled to Mexico.

Popular destination point for criminals.

If the boy did not have a job, he would not be here. I say sue the poultry company, wipe out every dollar of profit they ever nade by hiring illegals.

Cooper's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Rebollar, alleging he knew Gonzalez-Perez didn't have a driver's license and had a history of driving while intoxicated.

A HISTORY!!! The kid was only 15, and while that may be just fine in third world countries, it don't work here!!!
I just hope the three-year-old will not remember this, seeing his mother killed before his eyes.

A HISTORY!!! The kid was only 15,

LOL....hard to believe you have a HISTORY at that age......unless it's one rotton kid.

Originally Posted by vortex

Cooper's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Rebollar, alleging he knew Gonzalez-Perez didn't have a driver's license and had a history of driving while intoxicated.

A HISTORY!!! The kid was only 15, and while that may be just fine in third world countries, it don't work here!!!
I just hope the three-year-old will not remember this, seeing his mother killed before his eyes.

Where is that history listed? With the police who didn't have him deported prior to this accident? How about suing Pilgrim's Pride for hiring the man who killed your daughter.

Some more of those family values we are forever hearing about I suppose! Allowing your 15 year old to work in a poultry plant, drinking, drinking and driving, leaving the scene... and most importantly, LEAVING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING TO DIE! It doesn't say anything, but could this poor Mother have been saved if only he had had the decency to stop?

I agree that the employer should be added to the lawsuit, but I'd also be suing the cops, the Governor, the Mayor etc.

I don't know where to begin with this story!
1.-Where is this 15 year olds parents??????
2.-The article states this kid was employed under an "assumed" identity, Puh- leese. I can hardly keep up with the pc spin anymore.
3.Why did the owner of the truck flee?

I am so sad for this young mother's loved ones left behind and her precious baby.May God bless them.

Grand jury indicts teen in Commerce Road hit-and-run
By Joe Johnson | Athens Banner-Herald | Story updated at 4:28 pm on 10/8/2008


A Clarke County grand jury this afternoon indicted a 15-year-old boy on vehicular homicide and other charges for a hit-and-run collision this summer that killed a woman on Commerce Road.

Abel Gonzalez-Perez will be tried as an adult in Superior Court on three counts of first-degree homicide by vehicle, two counts of driving under the influence of alcohol, and one count each of hit and run, underage possession of alcohol and driving without a license.

He was driving a pickup the night of June 14 when the truck swerved into Nayasheika Cooper, who was walking on the shoulder with her 3-year-old son from their home on Commerce Road to a nearby convenience store, police said.

Police initially charged Gonzalez-Perez as a juvenile, but a judge last month granted a prosecutor’s request to transfer the boy’s case to Superior Court.

Gonzalez-Perez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who worked at a local poultry plant under an assumed name, is held without bail at the Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center.

A Superior Court judge will consider whether to set a bond for the boy’s release Thursday morning.

Originally published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Wednesday, October 08, 2008
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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.

Of course he was drunk. All illegal aliens who kill innocent people are drunk drivers.

The man who loaned the truck to the teen, Mandy Drive resident Alberto Rebollar, did not testify.

Police think Rebollar may have fled to Mexico.

Is anybody surprised at Rebollar? ALL ILLEGAL ALIEN MEXICANS FLEE OVER THE BORDER WHEN THEY COMMIT A CRIME.