Dec 27, 2007 6:21 pm US/Eastern
Hit And Run Driver Kills 13-Year-Old Boy
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The SUV was towed away from a home on Williams Street near the scene of the accident Thursday afternoon.
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Police spent Thursday morning searching for the Explorer, which has a damaged right front end.
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Police marked the scene on Poole St. with orange spray paint Thursday.
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Police said the driver wanted for running down and killing a 13-year-old boy on his bike in Taunton early Thursday morning turned himself in.
Craig Bigos, 31, of New Bedford, was arrested around 2 p.m.
Investigators said Bigos was driving a 1995 Ford Explorer on Poole St. just after midnight, when he veered off the road, hit the boy, and drove off.
The boy, who has not been publicly identified, died about an hour later at Morton Hospital.
The boy's friend, who was walking along side the bike at the time of the crash, witnessed the entire thing and provided police with a vehicle description.
"It's a tragedy. A tragedy for the family, a tragedy for his friend," said State Police Lt. Steve O'Reilly.
"The friend certainly assisted us in the investigation to give us something to go on and also with physical evidence that we were able to piece together that was left on the scene," said Sgt. Paul Roderick with the Taunton Police Department.
Officers spent the morning searching for the Explorer, which they said had significant damage to the right front end.
Police found the vehicle, which was towed away from a home on Williams Street about a quarter of a mile away from the scene of the accident.
Bigos turned himself in to police around 1 p.m. He is charged with motor vehicle homicide, leaving the scene of an accident-death resulting, operating a motor vehicle to endanger and driving without a license.
"We can tell you he was very remorseful, but we can't get into any specifics," said Lt. O'Reilly.
Bigos will be arraigned Friday in Taunton District Court.
The boy's friend, while helpful to police, is traumatized by the experience, officials said.
"He's distraught. He watched his friend get killed by a motor vehicle," Sgt. Roderick said.
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