CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — A Clayton County man who was killed in a hit-and-run is being remembered for his selflessness.
Javes Calhoun’s family says the 29-year-old love for helping others is what cost him his life.
Police say Calhoun was killed in a crash on I-75 near Tara Blvd. on Sept. 18 that left another woman critically injured.
Calhoun’s family says the two good Samaritans saw a car that had flipped over and were trying to help the family that was trapped inside.
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“He was just willing to give. Anything. He would give the shirt off his back to a homeless person,” his wife, Porsha Calhoun, told Channel 2′s Tom Jones.
“He loved to give. He loved people. He never met a stranger,” Mignon Jones, Calhoun’s mother, said.
Police say that while the two were standing outside, a driver swerved across several lanes of traffic just before 5 a.m. and hit the cars parked in the emergency lanes.
“It knocked him literally over the median to the I-75 NB side,” his sister, Taija Calhoun, said.
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Investigators say that after the crash, the driver jumped out of the car and took off running.
The tight-knit family is pleading for the driver to turn himself in.
“I’m not mad. I just want to be able to rest, so I want the driver to turn himself in,” Jones said.
Police have identified the owner of the car as a woman, so they are working to figure out who the man was.
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