KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - The Knoxville Police Department said the suspect in a hit-and-run that injured a woman and teen from Powell earlier this month was arrested in Georgia.

The incident happened about an hour after Tennessee’s football game against Arkansas on Oct. 11 when a 45-year-old woman and a 14-year-old girl sitting on a curb area near the sidewalk adjacent to a parking lot on Concord Street were hit by a Toyota 4Runner that was leaving the parking lot.

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KPD said the suspect was identified as 78-year-old Louis Milton Boyatt, and he was taken into custody on Tuesday in Dalton, Georgia.

Boyatt was charged with two counts of reckless aggravated vehicular

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