A family is wheeling from the loss of a 9-year-old boy who was hit and killed by a truck last Wednesday.
Another challenge they are facing is trying to understand why local police in the City of South Fulton have not arrested or charged the driver, a decision that intensifies their grief.
The boy, A’Cariyon Perry, had gone to get ice cream with a group of children. While attempting to cross the street to return home, a car sped around the truck and struck the elementary student, tragically ending his young life.
D’Estin Perry, her husband, Albert Tillman, and the rest of their family are now mourning the loss of their 9-year-old son, and his premature death has turned their “whole world upside down.”
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The mother, who was at work, wishes that her son had waited before going out for dessert.
She also mentioned that when authorities responded to their home on Creel Road after the accident, A’Cariyon was already dead.
“By the time they arrived, the blood was so bad that he had to have been speeding because it was on impact. His heart had already stopped,” Perry told WAGA-TV FOX5 Atlanta.
The driver has not been charged with the killing, and Perry is furious. She took to Facebook, criticizing authorities for allowing the person responsible for A’Cariyon’s death to remain free.
“This is unacceptable,” she wrote. “He didn’t even get a ticket; they let this person walk right home like he didn’t kill my child.”
Tillman, the boy’s father, tried to make sense of what happened.
“The ice cream truck went by, and like most kids, he wanted some ice cream, so he came outside and went to the ice cream truck,” Tillman said, adding that the next thing he knew, his child was hit.
“He hit him. I’m not sure if he was paying attention or something,” the dad said in an interview with WSB-TV.
A GoFundMe was set up by the family to help with expenses. The family has raised…
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