Teen discharged from hospital after being hit on North Westover Boulevard
Teen hit by car on North Westover Boulevard possibly connected to incident on Liberty Expressway
By Jennifer Parks
ALBANY — The Albany Police Department reports that a teenager suffered injuries in an automobile accident on the 1000 block of North Westover Boulevard Saturday at 7:12 p.m.
The agency also said the incident may be connected to another case that originated on the Liberty Expressway.
A report provided by APD indicates that a male victim, identified as Tarion Brown, age 14 or 15, was hit by a 2017 Honda Accord on North Westover and transported to Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital.
The accident report said the incident took place 200 feet west of the westward curb of Archwood Drive. The Accord was traveling in an inside lane when Brown ran into traffic attempting to cross the street in a southward direction and was struck by a vehicle being driven by Lisa Faye Gordon, the report said.
A separate report supplied by APD indicates the accident may be related to an assault call answered Saturday by Officer Jeremiah Phillips. Phillips said in his report that Vernon McDonald complained that his vehicle had been shot by an air rifle while he was traveling south on the 1000 block of the Liberty Expressway at 7:05 p.m.
McDonald reported that he saw two people “run across the street towards the Albany Mall” after his car was struck by shots from the air rifle. The complainant said he’d been driving with his window down and heard the shots.
McDonald said he pulled over to discover that his vehicle was struck on the rear fender of the driver’s side of his vehicle. It was not clear to McDonald whether the individuals were children or adults, but he did tell Phillips that one of them was “long-legged” and that they had been lying in the grassy median of the expressway while shooting at cars.
A spokeswoman at Phoebe said Brown had been discharged by Monday afternoon. The accident report said he was cited for being in the roadway outside of a crosswalk.
Phyllis Banks, a spokeswoman for the APD, said Brown was a possible suspect in the Liberty Expressway incident, but that no charges had been filed against him on Monday in connection to that case.
— Carlton Fletcher contributed to this report.
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