Driver accused in fatal Lumberton hit-and-run identified
Investigators have identified the driver of a vehicle involved in the hit-and-run death of a teenager who was walking along a road outside of Lumberton on Feb. 6.
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The North Carolina State Highway Patrol identified the driver as Michael Lenell Dortch, 45, of Lumberton. Dortch voluntarily turned himself in to investigators on Tuesday, according to a news release from the Highway Patrol. Dortch's 2004 Mitsubishi Endeavor has been seized as well.
Austen Stevey Ray Collins, 17, was walking along Wire Grass Road around 7:15 p.m. when he was struck and killed. The driver of the vehicle did not stop.
Collins was pronounced dead at the scene.
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