Vehicular homicide and reckless aggravated assault charges have been placed against a Bluff City teen based on a Johnson City truck-motorcycle crash that killed a man and seriously injured a woman.
Seth L. Green, 19, 1161 Old Elizabethton Hwy., Bluff City, was arrested Monday, more than a month after the May 23 crash at State of Franklin Road and West Walnut Street that killed Burrell “Gene” Mitchell, 39, Johnson City, and injured his passenger, Jennifer Newman, 29, also of Johnson City.
Police said Green stopped his pickup on State of Franklin at the intersection to turn onto West Walnut but made the turn as Mitchell's motorcycle and another motorcycle entered the intersection traveling south. The truck crossed in front of the bikes, and Mitchell's bike struck the pickup's passenger door.
Read the expanded version of this report at the Johnson City Press Web site.