On Thursday, April 27, 2023, at 11:13 pm, the Oxford Police Department, Oxford Fire Department, and EMS responded to the area of West Jackson Avenue and Fraternity Row for a reported crash involving a pedestrian. Emergency personnel arrived on the scene and began giving life-saving measures to the pedestrian, later identified as Andrew Tyler Miller, 19, of Missouri. Miller later succumbed to his injuries and passed away.
The vehicle that struck Miller fled the scene, but witnesses were able to give a description to officers. After searching throughout the night into the afternoon of the 28th, OPD investigators located the suspected vehicle. Cameron Neal Riser, 25, of Oxford, was arrested and charged with Leaving the Scene of an Accident Resulting in Death.
Riser was taken before a Lafayette County Justice Court judge for her initial bond hearing and issued a $50,000 bond.
