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Driver indicted in hit-and-run death
06/30/09 - 07:39 AM
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LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) - A motorist who struck a man in a motorized wheelchair has been indicted on vehicular homicide
charges.
   
Calcasieu Parish grand jurors recently returned the indictment against 43-year-old Ellis Thomas Charles.
   
Police say Charles allegedly struck from behind and killed
54-year-old Gary Wayne Charles, who was traveling down a Lake
Charles street in a motorized wheelchair. The defendant and the
victim are not related.
   
Gary Charles, who was ejected from his wheelchair, was taken to
a local hospital, where he later died of a head injury he had
suffered.

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