19-year-old drives SUV into metro Atlanta apartment, 8-year-old airlifted to hospital

Gainesville police are investigating a hit-and-run that left an eight-year-old seriously injured.

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It happened Monday at Lenox Park Apartments.

According to Gainesville police, Erickson Mondesir, 19, unintentionally drove his SUV into an apartment, seriously injuring an 8-year-old child.

The child was airlifted to the Children’s Hospital of Atlanta with serious injuries.

Instead of Mondesir helping the child, he ran away, police said.

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Mondesir was caught a short time later and booked into the Hall County Jail.

He is charged with hit and run and serious injury by a motor vehicle.

Officials did not say whether the child was in the vehicle or the apartment. The child’s identity was not released.

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