Victim identified in fatal hit-and-run on SH 146 in Dayton

Two days after the body of a deceased man was found along the southbound shoulder of SH 146 south of Dayton, authorities have now identified the victim of the fatal hit-and-run accident as William Thomas Wegner, 41, of Dayton.

Wegner’s body was spotted by a passing motorist on Monday afternoon, lying in a roadside ditch. From the advanced state of decomposition, authorities believed he had been lying on the ground for at least a couple of days, though an autopsy was ordered to determine the exact time of death.

According to Capt. David Meyers, a spokesperson for the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office, investigators have been diligently working the case since the body was found on Monday and they now have leads on the victim and driver believed to have caused Wegner’s death.

On Wednesday evening, Meyers told Bluebonnet News that investigators are currently in the process of taking the suspect into custody and impounding the vehicle. The suspected driver is also from the Dayton area.

Meyers said one of the explanations he has heard for Wegner riding his bike along the highway at the time he was killed is that he was on his way to pick up bottled water.

An update to this article will be posted as soon as new information becomes available.

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Before creating Bluebonnet News in 2018, Vanesa Brashier was a community editor for the Houston Chronicle/Houston Community Newspapers. During part of her 12 years at the newspapers, she was assigned as the digital editor and managing editor for the Humble Observer, Kingwood Observer, East Montgomery County Observer and the Lake Houston Observer, and the editor of the Dayton News, Cleveland Advocate and Eastex Advocate. Over the years, she has earned more than two dozen writing awards, including Journalist of the Year.

4 COMMENTS

  1. Deceased=
    de= the
    Ceased= seized=
    Meaning = the seized

    He was seized…? Your thoughts.. do you know?
    Decomposed
    De= the
    Composed= composier?
    .composer..

    Meaning body flesh rotting??

    Still alive?

    Broken by hit, vehicle…possibly you say?

    Men going g around calling ther selves
    (“The Hammer,”)

    Arms are weapons,

    = to Hammer, the tool

    Illegal on streets I here…

    All the “Drugs” needed

    Military Tactic…

    (Vietnam,)

    Thank you for up dates

  2. Arm=Ern
    Ern= for cremation
    To cream, (Humin) (HUMAN) IN a nation…
    Arm removel= to fit in Ern.
    Special break= bone doctor = to break bones

    To you?
    Cremation = to ash= burn?

    Anyway a cremation was done, I guess only funeral home personel
    Does….

    “ONE NATION UNDER GOD, ”

    BUT MY GOD IS NOT YOUR GOD (IS WHAT SOMEONE SAID TO ME)

    IN FACT,
    YOU WOULD CALL IT A DEVIL

    (SATAN) not devil

  3. C= s or k

    Kon= a cone
    Son= like someone’s child
    Or sun
    Like a name

    I don’t know…

    Just thinking

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