A father has been arrested for allegedly dumping his 8-month-old son in the middle of a Florida intersection and then fatally running him over with his SUV, authorities said.
Justin Golden, 20, is accused of k!lling the baby boy in Jacksonville after getting into a fight with his female passenger at about 11 a.m. on Saturday, Jan 25, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
‘The driver stopped the vehicle at the intersection, opened the door, and placed the child on the ground,’ the sheriff’s office said.
‘The driver then began to leave the area and the vehicle struck the child.’
It wasn’t immediately clear if the female passenger was the boy’s mother.
However, horrified witnesses recalled seeing the distraught woman clutching the baby in the middle of the street in the aftermath.
‘The kid was bleeding,’ Markin Barnes, who runs a barbershop across the street, told News4Jax. ‘So we immediately asked did she needed help.’
Golden, who allegedly fled the scene but was followed by a witness, was quickly nabbed and hit with aggravated manslaughter and vehicular homicide charges over the horrific ordeal, authorities said.
He is currently being held in the Duval County jail. The sheriff’s office said they are still probing the horror.
