Robert L. Hairston

How they died

Vehic/Purs

A lawsuit contends that suspect Erick Johnson, then 18, was traveling the wrong way and speeding in the southbound lane of Northside Drive when the 1997 Infiniti Q-45 he was driving ran a red light and hit Hairston's smaller Dodge Neon head-on, killing the off-duty MARTA bus driver. Johnson's reckless driving was a "direct result of a high speed chase initiated" by the officers who, the suit says, pursued Johnson during heavy rush hour traffic in downtown Atlanta.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Robert L. Hairston, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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