Driver faces vehicular homicide charge after boy dies
Published 1:00 pm Monday, October 29, 2018
- Noah Palmer.
MOULTRIE, Ga. — A vehicular homicide charge was added against the alleged driver in an accident that killed a 10-year-old boy on Thursday.
A booking report at the Colquitt County Jail on Friday listed charges against Monica Cutts, 25, of Tallahassee, Fla., as two counts of serious injury by vehicle, passing school bus loading and unloading, driving while license withdrawn and homicide by vehicle. The other charges were made public on Thursday afternoon before the injured boy died.
Cutts was driving a Kia automobile on Thigpen Trail about 6:50 a.m. Thursday, the Georgia State Patrol reported. A school bus was stopped to pick up two children, and the GSP said the Kia struck the boys as they crossed the road to the bus.
Ten-year-old Noah John Palmer died about 12 hours later in a Macon hospital. Read his obituary here.
Palmer’s 7-year-old brother, Dylan Wolfe, was also injured. GSP Cpl. Kenneth Jones said he was in serious condition at a Tallahassee hospital Thursday afternoon.
Two Go Fund Me pages have been started in connection with this tragedy.
One, started on Thursday prior to Noah’s passing, has raised $7,800 of a $15,000 goal. It lists the contact as Amanda Wolfe, the boys’ mother, although text on the web page indicates it was started by an aunt. It’s raising money for medical expenses for both of the children and funeral expenses for Noah, according to information on the web page.
The other, started later on Thursday, has raised $890 of a $10,000 goal. It lists the organizer as Anna Danette Porter. It is raising the money for Noah’s funeral costs as well as to help his father and stepmother with lost wages during this tragic time, according to information on the web page.
Links to both Go Fund Me pages are at left.