East Ridge police arrest suspect in post-Christmas hit and run

East Ridge (WDEF) – East Ridge police have charged a suspect in fatal hit and run from the morning after Christmas.

Rodney Maurice Hill was arrested last night.

Early on December 26th, Darrell Lee Carter was walking on Ringgold Road when he was hit by a car.

Investigators identified Hill’s Nissan Sentra as the one who hit him two days later.

But Hill reported to Ft. Oglethorpe police that he had hit a deer.

The car was sent to the TBI crime lab in Nashville.

The results linking the damage to the East Ridge case just came back.