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Suspect in Downtown Hit-and-Run Turns Himself in

Donterris Gresham, a 29-year-old Athens resident, turned himself into the Clarke County Jail on Wednesday after police issued warrants for his arrest in connection with a hit-and-run that killed a University of Georgia student.

Shortly after midnight on Saturday, Oct. 9, a Honda Accord traveling west hit and killed Ariana Zarse, 20, as she was crossing East Broad Street near Foundry Street, where there is a yield sign at the railroad tracks and nearby crosswalk. The driver fled the scene and abandoned the car on Berlin Street in East Athens.

Police later identified Gresham as the driver and issued warrants for his arrest on charges of first degree homicide by vehicle, hit and run involving serious injury or death, failure to obey traffic control device, too fast for conditions and driving while unlicensed.

Zarse, a native of Austin, TX, was a third-year marketing and public relations major and a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority.

Also on Wednesday, another woman died eight days after being involved in a crash on West Broad Street near Sycamore Drive. According to ACC police, Mary Case, 95, hit another car head-on Oct. 5. The driver and passenger in that car suffered non-life-threatening injuries, while Case was taken to a hospital with a broken ankle. She died Oct. 13 due to complications from injuries sustained in the crash, police said.

Zarse and Case were the 20th and 21st traffic deaths this year, according to ACCPD.

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