A 16-year-old died late Sunday after twerking on the hood of his friend’s Jeep, only to fall off and get pinned underneath the SUV, his parents said.
A teenager in Georgia died late Sunday after climbing onto the hood of a Jeep and falling off while twerking, becoming pinned underneath the SUV, his family said.
Georgia State Patrol said Alex Desalis may have been "car surfing" — riding unrestrained atop a moving vehicle — at the time, but his parents gave local media a different account of what happened.
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 around 2:40 p.m. Saturday.
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-affiliate WXIA. "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.
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