GASTONIA, N.C. — Gastonia police are asking for the public’s help finding the driver who hit and killed a man riding a moped five months ago.
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Police believe the crash happened near dusk on June 9. Chris McAllister was riding his moped through a neighborhood where he once lived when someone hit him at the intersection of West Walnut Avenue and Ransom Street and kept going.
McAllister’s mother said he later died at the hospital. It is not clear how long he was lying in the street before paramedics arrived.
On Monday, exactly five months after the deadly crash, McAllister’s mother said a picture of her son appeared on her phone as a memory.
She said she never thought she would have to wait five months for answers about how her son died and who hit him.
Police are still searching for the driver who struck McAllister, who was the father of a 17-year-old.
Gastonia police are asking anyone with information that could help identify the driver to come forward.