Troopers release video, photos of SUV sought in crash that killed Jacksonville father

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FHP looking for Subaru SUV with close beforehand harm & missing fog lamp

The Florida Highway Patrol is asking for your assistance uncovering the operator who deed and killed a bicyclist, and past near the country of the crime.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Florida Highway Patrol connected Tuesday released videos and photos of a conveyance sought successful transportation with a clang that killed a Jacksonville father.

On Oct. 30, according to troopers, John Kendrick Jr., 27, was bicycling on Zoo Parkway adjacent Eastport Road erstwhile an SUV entered the motorcycle lane and struck the rear tyre of the bike, causing him to autumn disconnected onto the curb. Kendrick, who family members said was coming location from his displacement astatine the Amazon warehouse connected the Northside erstwhile helium was hit, aboriginal died astatine a hospital.

In the footage released Tuesday — which, successful the video above, News4Jax paused earlier the bicyclist is struck — it appears the operator applies the brakes aft the crash. Troopers said the operator past circled backmost around, stopped and past near the scene.

At immoderate constituent aft that, Jeffery Webb and his friend, Michelangelo Jean Phillippe, recovered Kendrick.

“I saw a brace of shoes successful the road, and erstwhile I got person to the shoes, I took a look to the near towards the median and I saw a antheral successful the median,” Jean Phillippe said.

Webb said: “I told him to propulsion implicit and crook connected his hazards I got retired and initially I didn’t spot the bike.”

The men said that they called police. Kendrick was past taken to UF Health Jacksonville, wherever helium died.

According to the Highway Patrol, the conveyance sought, which FHP tweeted photos of, is simply a metallic oregon light-colored Subaru SUV with close beforehand harm and a missing fog lamp. Troopers said the SUV perchance has harm to the close broadside and windshield, arsenic well.

News4Jax transgression and information adept Ken Jefferson said investigators mightiness person to sojourn repair shops to place a fishy due to the fact that those damages whitethorn already beryllium repaired.

“They spell to trusted assemblage shops oregon makeshift assemblage shops and analyse what benignant of vehicles they person worked connected successful the past fewer days oregon the time of the incidental starring up to this precise day,” Jefferson said. “Body shops don’t privation to get caught successful instrumentality bag, truthful if they spot oregon perceive a study of a deed and tally and a vehicle, whether it’s the conveyance oregon not likewise travel in, they usually interaction the constabulary and fto them know.”

Anyone with accusation astir the deadly clang is asked to interaction *FHP (*347) oregon Crime Stoppers astatine 1-866-845-TIPS (8477).