Accused in fatal Eccles hit-and-run freed of charges

Latoya Thompson

Shamir Barker, the accused in the hit and run accident that caused the death of Latoya Thompson last year, was yesterday found not guilty of the crime after police failed to prove that he was the driver of the vehicle that hit her.

It was alleged that Barker, 25, drove motor vehicle PPP 1354 in a manner dangerous to the public, thereby causing the death of Thompson on August 12, 2015, on the Eccles Public Road.

Thompson was a passenger on a motorcycle being driven by her boyfriend, Orwin Whittington, when