Deadly hit-and-run victim, suspect identified
The names of the suspect and the victim involved in a hit-and-run death in Jacksonville have been released.
David Oglesby with the North Carolina Highway Patrol tells NewsChannel 12 that the man found dead in a ditch along Dawson Cabin Road is Patrick Allen Morton, 31, of Jacksonville.
Oglesby said Morton was walking back home from a gas station around 9:15 p.m. Tuesday night when a silver Dodge pick-up, driven by Tracy McConnell, 48, of Jacksonville, hit him.
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