A man has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed a 10-year-old girl who was riding an e-bike with her brother earlier this month in northwest Miami-Dade.
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Arick Metayer, 33, was identified as the driver behind the wheel and charged with leaving the scene of a deadly crash and tampering with physical evidence, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office announced Monday.
Payton Williams was killed in the Sept. 9 crash, while her brother, Brent, was seriously injured and hospitalized.
Officials said a driver was going north on Northwest 7th Avenue approaching Northwest 117th Street when they made a left turn and hit the children before fleeing.
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The children were found on the roadway, unresponsive. They were transported to Ryder Trauma Center, where the young girl died.
Hundreds gathered at a vigil on Sept. 14 in honor of Payton and her brother.
“You hit somebody. You hit my kid, you didn’t stop,” the children’s mother, Shaniq, said at the time.
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