LIZELLA, Ga. — UPDATE 10:45 a.m.:
According to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, Jody Woodard turned himself into the Bibb County Law Enforcement Center just before 8 p.m. Friday night.
Investigators issued arrest warrants for Woodard for failure to yield and vehicle homicide on Thursday.
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Bibb investigators have charged a man with the killing of a 26-year-old motorcyclist in Lizella earlier this week.
Dontreal Lewis died Tuesday, a day after being hit at the intersection of Holley Road and South Lizella Road.
It was reported that Lewis was going west on Holley Road on a 2018 Kawasaki ZX1000.
He collided with a 2005 Nissan Maxima driven by 35-year-old Jody Woodard, of Knoxville, as Woodard was making a left turn.
Lewis was critically injured and later died from those injuries, according to Bibb Coroner Leon Jones.
Woodard and his wife, who was also in the vehicle, were both unharmed.
On Thursday, investigators charged Woodard with failure to yield and vehicular homicide.
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