Alex Desalis, 16, died after he was seen riding and twerking unrestrained atop a moving vehicle.
His mother, Michelle Guthrie, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that the 16-year-old jumped onto the hood of a friend’s 2009 Jeep Wrangler.
Alex had asked the friend for a ride down the road, but instead jumped on the hood to make her laugh, his parents said.
“It wasn’t a car surfing adventure,”Kenneth Guthrie, Alex’s father, told NBC-affiliateWXIA.
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“It was him climbing up on his friend’s [vehicle] — the hood of her car — on all fours more than likely being funny, trying to get a laugh by twerking.”
The parents also suggested the driver’s foot may have slipped, hurling the boy to the ground.
Alex was airlifted to Grady Hospital in Atlanta in critical condition, but was pronounced dead Sunday evening after his parents decided to take him off life support.
The parents told WXIA that they don’t want the 16-year-old girl who was driving the car to be charged in the incident.
“I don’t want probation. I don’t want her in jail,” Michelle Guthrie said. “It was an accident. We feel more bad for the family — for what they’re going through as well.”
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