15-year-old boy struck by car in Sampson County
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- A 15-year-old Sampson County boy is drifting in and out of consciousness at UNC Hospital Sunday after a car barreled into him Saturday night.
It happened in Roseboro at the intersection of East Pleasant and Park Drive.
Eyewitnesses say the driver struck the young man and then kept going.
Traveon Thompkin is awake and alert and told ABC11 he remembers what happened Saturday night.
The 15-year-old Lakewood High School sophomore says he was walking with two friends from a party when they saw a car coming, they moved to get out of the way, but he says the car ran a stop sign and hit them, then left.
He doesn't remember much after that, but ended up at the UNC Children's Hospital.
Highway Patrol confirms the hit-and-run, and say the driver, who Thompkin knows, was 20-year-old Bryant Thomas.
Troopers say Thomas did leave the scene but returned shortly after.
Highway Patrol says he is not under arrest and that the hit-and-run is under investigation, which is frustrating for Thompkin's family.
"We have to focus on him and then it's not right that nothing's happening [to]the people who did this to him, nothing's happening, no one has been arrested, nothing's happening so. I think I'm trying to kill two birds with one stone," said April Thompkin, Traveon's aunt.
The teen says he and Thomas used to be friends but had a falling out a month ago.
As far as injuries, his aunt says he has a fractured skull, a brain bleed and for now is deaf in one ear.
ABC11 reached out to the family of Bryant Thomas, but they hung up when asked for Thomas' side of the story.
