Police offering reward for hit-and-run motorist in fatal accident
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Posted 6:19PM on Friday, January 3, 2003
EAST POINT - East Point police are offering a $6,000 reward for information on a hit-and-run driver who killed an officer last month. <br>
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Officer Christopher Betts, 26, and his partner, Officer James Weinmann, 27, stumbled into oncoming traffic while fighting with a suspect on Atlanta's perimeter highway. <br>
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Three cars hit the men, killing Betts and the suspect, Renard Banks, 34. Weinmann is now in rehabilitation, after undergoing surgery on his left leg and pelvis. <br>
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Police have released a sketch of a black female with medium-length hair, who fled the scene. She was driving a mid- to late-1980's brown Honda Accord. <br>
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No charges are expected to be filed against the other two drivers.