Infant, toddler, among the victims
Two people were killed and four, including an infant and a toddler, were injured in a head-on collision this morning.
Cassidi Autumn Porter, 28, and Steven Ray Reynolds, 51, were killed in the two-vehicle crash on State Route 212 around 7:20 this morning.
“They were literally in the process today of moving from Daytona Beach to Conyers,” Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills said.
Cassidi Porter’s two sons, ages 9 months and 21 months, and her mother, 51-year-old Alisha Kaye Porter, also of Daytona Beach, were injured and taken to Atrium Health Navicent Medical Center in Macon for treatment.
Sills said he did not know how seriously the babies were injured, “but they didn’t appear to be life-threatening.” He noted that Alisha Porter’s injuries were more serious.
All four victims were traveling northbound on State Route 212 in a 2025 Hyundai Palisade being driven by Alisha Porter. They were struck by a 2005 Chevrolet Silverado pickup, driven by Elijah Brooks Malcom, 19, of Good Hope.
Another vehicle, pulling a boat on a trailer, was stopped in the southbound lane waiting to turn onto Twin Bridges Road.
“He (the driver) was basically waiting for the Hyundai to come by when (Malcom) for whatever reason came around the man who was waiting to turn, and hit the Porters’ car head-on,” Sills said. “And that’s according to three witnesses at the scene.”
The vehicle waiting to turn was not struck in the collision and that driver escaped injury, according to Sills.
Malcom was driven by private vehicle to seek medical treatment for unknown injuries, Sills said.
“He will be charged with misdemeanor homicide by vehicle,” the sheriff added.