‘Left him to die’: Mother pleads for witnesses after hit-and-run leaves son hospitalized

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, S.C. — A man is still in the hospital over a month after a hit-and-run crash on Highway 1 in Chesterfield County, and his mother is pleading for witnesses to come forward.

The crash happened in late March, and Rebecca Floyd told Channel 9′s Tina Terry that if it weren’t for a police officer who saw her son hurt on the side of the road, he might not be alive today.

“I’m just glad and I thank God that he made it, that he’s still alive at this point,” Floyd said.

Jeffery Gainey has been in the hospital for weeks. Doctors say he had a traumatic brain injury, a broken neck, and a fractured pelvis after someone hit him on the rural highway.

“He was riding a bicycle and leaving our house and going to a friend’s,” Floyd told Terry. “Someone hit him and left him to die, just left him laying by the side of the road like he was trash. I wouldn’t even do that to a dog, much less a human. I just don’t understand how they’re sleeping at night.”

Floyd says an off-duty officer spotted Gainey’s bike on the ground near the highway hours later.

“He said something didn’t feel right, so he’s the one who went back, and he’s the one that found him,” Floyd said.

But despite a lengthy investigation so far, the South Carolina Highway Patrol hasn’t made any arrests yet.

Floyd told Terry that she forgives the person who hit her son, but she’s praying that person will be brought to justice.

“Without the help from the public, we may never know. We want justice,” Floyd said.

She told Channel 9 that her son is in good spirits, but there’s no word on when he’ll be released from the hospital.

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