Police arrest suspect in hit-and-run crash that injured 6-year-old

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Cobb County police said they have arrested the driver who hit and seriously injured a 6-year-old boy.

Channel 2's Chris Jose was the first to report the arrest on Twitter.

Brian Demarco Locklin was charged with serious injury by vehicle, felony hit and run and false statements.

The boy, Jack, was hit on Feb. 18 while walking in a crosswalk on Burnt Hickory Road near one of the trail entrances to Kennesaw Mountain.

Police said a driver in a blue Impala passed stopped traffic on the wrong side of the road and hit Jack in the crosswalk before crashing into a parked car.

“(He) saw I was stopped, never put on the brakes and just came around me and that’s when the father and the two boys were crossing,” witness Sherry Jones said.

Jones said Jack’s father comforted him as they waited for an ambulance to arrive.

“He was saying, ‘Jack, hang in there. Hang in there, buddy. We’re going to get you help. Hang in there, Jack,’” she said. “I was just so thankful when he (Jack) opened his eyes and I knew he was alive.”

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Jack recently lost his mother to cancer, and his father posted on Facebook that “God and his mother definitely had a protective bubble around him.”

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