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Erick Bernard Robertson

Age : 23

Gender : Male

Race : Black

Date : 05/31/2021

Location : Coffee County

City : Coffee County

County : Coffee

State : Georgia

Agency : Not Disclosed

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Vehicle

Event : Driver killed in police-related vehicle crash documented by FARS

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

REASON FOR CHASE: Police pursuit circumstances and initiating reason have not been publicly identified.
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NARRATIVE:
On 05/31/2021, 23-year-old Erick Bernard Robertson died at UF Health Shands Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, from injuries sustained in a motor-vehicle crash. Robertson was born on 07/07/1997 and had close family connections to Alma and Douglas in south Georgia. His father, Ellis Bernard Robertson, lived in Douglas in Coffee County.
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Robertson had been transported to Shands in Jacksonville following the crash. His funeral-home obituary confirms both his age and that his death resulted from injuries sustained in an automobile accident, although it does not identify the location or date of the underlying collision.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System documents a police-related traffic fatality in Coffee County on 05/31/2021. The publicly available FARS material associated with the working record does not identify the involved law-enforcement agency or provide the circumstances that initiated the police-related event.
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Robertson was the father of three children. His surviving family included his mother Crystal Jonell Smith McCillian and stepfather Daughtery Lee McMillian Sr. of Alma, his father Ellis Bernard Robertson of Douglas, two brothers, and his maternal grandmother.
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Robertson's funeral home published three photographs of him and announced that memorial services would be held at a later date.
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The precise circumstances of the fatal police-related vehicle event, including the initiating reason, pursuing agency, crash location and whether Robertson died on the day of the collision or later from his injuries, remain undocumented in the public sources located to date.
OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The involved law-enforcement officer(s) and agency have not been publicly identified.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.crosbyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/erick-robertson
https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/fatality-analysis-reporting-system-fars