An Ohio youth pastor faces felony charges including vehicular homicide after one of the children in the congregation died after he was thrown from a church van.

Rushon Patterson II, 26, is the youth pastor at the Alive Now Church in Canton, according to reporting by local CBS affiliate WOIO. On Sept. 6, Patterson was driving a van owned by the church when he allegedly allowed several teenagers to ride on the side of the van. According to a police report obtained by WOIO, most of the teens jumped off the van when they spotted a pothole in the road.

One boy, however, never saw the pothole. When Patterson drove over it, the boy was reportedly thrown from the van and hit his head.

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