Leroy Riles Jr., a 46-year-old man, was killed late on the night of May 13, 2021, after what authorities described as a hit-and-run in Center Point, Alabama. The known details place him on or near 24th Avenue NW around 11 p.m., when he was struck by a vehicle and left badly injured. He was later found nearby in the 2400 block of Center Point Parkway, and the scene that followed was the kind that leaves almost no one untouched: a man down in the roadway, a driver gone, and a family suddenly
forced into the terrible reality that he was not coming home. Early coverage identified him as being from Birmingham, even though the case is tied to Center Point because that is where the fatal collision happened.
What makes the case especially haunting is how quickly the driver disappeared. Witness information reported at the time indicated that the vehicle fled after impact, turning the death into more than a traffic fatality and placing it in the category of a suspected criminal act. Online case summaries published later say investigators identified the suspect vehicle as a white Honda Accord and that the car was recovered at the Monarch Ridge Apartments, suggesting detectives were able to trace at least part of what happened after the collision. Even with that detail, the public picture remains frustratingly incomplete, because the most accessible reporting does not fill in who was behind the wheel when Leroy Riles Jr. was struck.
As for arrests, suspects, or prosecutions, the public online trail appears to go quiet after the initial reports and later case listings. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was reported to be investigating, but in the sources I found, there was no clear public announcement identifying a named suspect, no confirmed arrest tied to Leroy Riles Jr.’s death, and no readily available report of charges, trial proceedings, or a conviction in the case. That absence leaves his death with the unfinished feeling that often surrounds hit-and-run homicides: investigators may have recovered important evidence, but from the public record that is easy to access online, the story still ends with Leroy Riles Jr. dead in the road and the question of accountability left unresolved.
