White County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested Shannon Hamilton Sunday afternoon on the bridge where his daughter died one month ago.
Hamilton says he was attempting to erect safety barricades on Gene Nix Road with materials donated by neighbors in the wake of the fatal accident March 14 that claimed the lives of his daughter, 16-year-old Cecily Hamilton and 18-year-old Taylor Scott Swing.
White County Commissioners voted to add guardrails at the bridge back on March 30 but family members say the government isn’t acting fast enough “White county wants to take their time in getting this accomplished so my dad did it for them,” explains Cecily’s brother Kale Hamilton.
Kale posted a video of his father’s arrest to facebook and notified Now Habersham in hopes the video will go “viral.” In the video Shannon can be heard saying “It’s sad, it’s sad the community of the grieving parents have to make things happen when the White County Roads Department can’t do it.”
There is no word yet on charges for Shannon Hamilton. Now Habersham contacted the White County Sheriff’s Office for more details, “We don’t have the charges yet.” was all we got at 5:30 PM on Sunday.
Updates:
Grieving father praises arresting officers
Sheriff asks DA not to pursue charges against father of dead teen
