- Adriel Holloway, 27, from Cincinnati was charged with aggravated vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident on August 10
- He is accused of crashing his car into a tree then fleeing while his son Aryionte Grace-Holloway, 10, stayed in the front seat
- Aryionte was critically injured and died in the hospital six weeks later
Police say Adriel Holloway then fled the scene of the crash, leaving his critically injured son behind
A Cincinnati father is accused of leaving his 10-year-old son to die in the car that he crashed.
Cincinnati police announced Tuesday that 27-year-old Adriel Holloway was arrested and charged with aggravated vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident.
His son Aryionte Grace-Holloway was sitting in the front seat and wasn’t wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash. The air bag did not deploy at the moment of impact.
Holloway was allegedly driving with his son in Cincinnati on August 1 when the car went off the road and struck a tree.
Police say Holloway then fled the scene of the crash, leaving his critically injured son behind. Excessive speed and impairment were factors in the accident, police told Fox 19.
Aryionte Grace-Holloway died in the hospital Sunday six weeks after the August 1 crash
Aryionte Grace-Holloway, 10, was sitting in the front seat and wasn’t wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash
Six weeks later, the 10-year-old died Sunday at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
Witnesses stopped Holloway from fleeing before police arrived. He was hospitalized in fair condition.
The mother of Aryionte, Brianna Smith, told WCPO: ‘He always kept that smile.’
‘He loved his brothers and sisters.’
No attorney was listed for Holloway in court records.