GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — The family of an Army veteran is pleading for the public’s help in finding out who left him for dead on the side of a street during a hit-and-run.
Desmond Font, 29, was killed in October in a residential area on Cruse Road in Lawrenceville.
“He was a veteran, a caring person. He loved kids. He was just a good guy,” his stepfather Donald Harris.
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The deadly hit-and-run happened two weeks ago, but Font’s family is still feeling like it is day one of receiving the dreadful news.
“We don’t have any answers,” Harris said. “Somebody hit our son and they left.”
Harris said the 29-year-old was walking from a Papa Johns down the street.
According to the police report, Lawrenceville police were responding to a separate call. But while at the Papa Johns, a bystander alerted police that there was a body lying in the driveway of the a home next door.
“Police say it was 45 minutes from the time that the police arrived on scene to the time that he was killed,” Harris said.
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Police confirmed in the reporter that Font died after being hit by a car. But two weeks later and no new leads, Font’s family fears they won’t see closure in the case.
“Somebody had to have heard this, somebody had to have seen something,” Harris said.
“We’re absolutely devastated and we don’t have any closure. We don’t have any peace with this because we don’t know who did this.”
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There is limited information on the vehicle that might have hit and killed Font. One neighbor told the family that it was either a gray or white truck.
Police have gathered surveillance video in the area. They are asking for the public to report any information on this case to them.
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