THP Narrows Description in Search for Suspect Hit & Run Vehicle

NASHVILLE --- With assistance from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) Crime Lab, the Tennessee Highway Patrol is narrowing the description of a vehicle involved in a hit and run crash that killed a seven year-old Hartsville boy last Tuesday evening in Trousdale County.

 

From evidence of the vehicle gathered at the scene of the crash and examined by the TBI, THP investigators now believe the suspect vehicle is a 2001 to 2006 GMC Sierra or Yukon. The exact color of the suspect vehicle is not known at this time. This vehicle has heavy damage to the right front headlight and turn signal assembly area.

 

At approximately 7:30 p.m., February 9th, seven year-old Nathan Allen Denham was struck and killed by a hit and run automobile as the boy was crossing State Route 141 near the Methodist Church in Hartsville. Nathan had been attending a Cub Scout meeting with his father at the church and had just crossed to the opposite side of the street to move a garbage can that had blown from a nearby yard.

 

Tennessee State Troopers and officers from Trousdale, Macon and Wilson counties continue to search for the vehicle fitting the more detailed description and urge the public to provide any input that may be helpful in locating the vehicle and driver.

 

Anyone with information of a vehicle matching this description and damage or knows of a vehicle with this type of damage repaired within the last week, please contact the Tennessee Highway Patrol Cookeville Office (931)-528-8496, Extension 122, or the Trousdale County Sheriff at (615)-374-2114.