LUBBOCK, TX – A 29-year-old Shallowater man has been indicted and charged in connection to a fatal hit-and-run.
According to law enforcement, Benjamin Mitchell was traveling in a Buick Lacrosse 4600 block of Avenue Q.
An officer who was traveling in the opposite direction on Ave Q observed Mitchell driving at a high rate of speed. Before he could turn around and conduct a traffic stop, the officer heard tires screeching and the impact of the crash.
Mitchell had struck a motorcycle and left the scene without stopping to check on the two riders.
The riders were identified as 40-year-old Anthony Childers and 31-year-old Barbara Matthews of Hobbs, New Mexico. They died at the scene.