DA Reviewing Independence High Senior's Fatal Bike Wreck

FRANKLIN, TN -- Williamson County's top prosecutor says her office is reviewing the circumstances of the wreck that killed an Independence High School senior just days before her graduation last month.

Megan Fitzgerald, who planned to matriculate at Southern Illinois University this fall and was IHS's swim team captain, was hit while cycling on Coleman Road May 9. She died from her injuries the next day.

The driver of the vehicle that hit Fitzgerald has not been identified.

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District Attorney-General Kim Helper told The Tennessean her office is reviewing the evidence and may ask the sheriff to continue an investigation.

"One of the assistant DAs will be assigned the case," Helper told the paper. "They will look at the evidence and depending on what the circumstances are, we may ask the Williamson County Sheriff's Office to do follow-up work. That’s kind of where the process is right now, and whether or not that would support a prosecution."

Photo via Tennessee District Attorney's Conference