Bartow Man Plows Through Fatal Accident Scene: Police

CARTERSVILLE, GA — A Bartow County man who authorities say plowed his car through an accident scene is in jail Wednesday, charged with aggravated assault, tampering with evidence and other felonies and misdemeanors.

Paris Deshun Scott, 36, of Cartersville was arrested Monday night after passing through and then ramming the scene of an accident on Joe Frank Harris Parkway that had already killed Shirbert Stubbs of Rome.

According to police records as reported by WBHF Community Radio, Georgia State Patrol troopers and Bartow County deputies were investigating the accident when a Chrysler 300 driven by Scott sped up to the stopped traffic. Then, Scott drove past a patrol car on part of the road reserved for emergency vehicles and accelerated again.

Two Bartow deputies stopped him 200 feet away from the crash site. But when one of the deputies walked back to his car, Scott reportedly began accelerating toward the accident site, nearly hitting two officers and destroying multiple pieces of evidence.

Officers gave chase and eventually caught Scott after he wrecked his car on Mac Johnson Road.

Scott was arrested and charged with four counts of felony aggravated assault, three counts of felony willful obstruction of law-enforcement officers, a single felony charge of fleeing a police officer, and multiple misdemeanors related to his driving.

With bond set at $25,000, Scott was still in the Bartow County Detention Center in Cartersville as of Wednesday afternoon.

Read the story from WBHF Community Radio in Cartersville.