HARDINSBURG, Ky. (AP) - Law enforcement officials have arrested a man after an 8-year-old Kentucky boy was hit and killed by a vehicle while getting the mail on the side of the road.
Trooper Scotty Sharp, a Kentucky State Police Post 4 spokesman, said Saturday that 35-year-old Bradley Mattingly of Leitchield has been jailed at Breckinridge County Detention Center for allegedly leaving the scene of an accident and reckless homicide.
Sharp says a preliminary investigation concluded that a 2009 Pontiac Torrent hit the young boy around 11:30 a.m. while he was out on the side of the road getting mail from the mailbox in Breckinridge County.
A state trooper found the vehicle while headed to scene of the incident.
The accident remains under investigation.
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