Hit-and-run victim remembered as kind, social
Lewis Avery Gray, 71, was killed Wednesday morning when four vehicles struck him on Falls of Neuse Road.
Posted — Updated“If you didn’t like Lew, then you don’t like anybody,” Gray's friend Ron Stonestreet said.
Raleigh Police said that four vehicles hit Gray while he was trying to cross Falls of Neuse Road, near the North Ridge Pub. Two men have been charged.
Gray had been retired for six years. Prior to that he worked as the executive director of Smith Anderson Law in Raleigh for 16 years.
Visitation will be held Sunday from 2 to 3 p.m. at Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, 1701 E. Millbrook Road in Raleigh. Following the service, the North Ridge Pub will hosting a party to honor Gray.
Police charged Carlos David Rodriguez-Bautista, 34, with felony hit-and-run and Carlos Humberto Agustindiaz with misdemeanor hit-and-run in Gray's death. Investigators say that Rodriguez-Bautista was driving the first vehicle to strike Gray.
The drivers of the two other vehicles that hit Gray stayed at the scene and will not be charged, police said.
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