Case involving hit-and-run that killed 14-year-old dismissed following suspect’s death

RIVERSIDE — The man who was facing charges in connection to a hit-and-run crash that killed a 14-year-old Riverside girl has died.

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Jared Koger, 41, died July 13 of a septic infection, according to documents filed in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court.

Koger’s attorney requested that the case be dismissed following his death and that request was granted, according to documents filed on July 18.

Koger was formally charged in April with failing to stop after an accident. The charge was connected to a hit-and-run crash near the corner of Woodman Drive and Burkhardt Road in Riverside in December 2023.

Brianna McCarthy, 14, was hit while walking near that corner. She died from her injuries less than a week after the crash.

Most people are like, ‘Good,’ you know, but I’m like ‘No, no, no’ because I don’t wish death on anybody,” Allyson McCarthy, Brianna’s mother, said.

Allyson has been heartbroken since last December and she wanted someone punished.

“I’d rather he went to jail and actually had to, you know, suffer for his consequences,” she said.

As reported on News Center 7 at 6:00, she said she was looking forward to the trial.

“[I] was looking forward to the trial just to be able to face him, you know, and tell him, ‘Look, this is what you did to my family,’” She said.

Allyson will never get the chance to do that and said the whole thing feels unfinished. She said she said she’s taking comfort in the fact that her daughter was an organ donor and saved and improved many other lives.

“It’s hard to lose her, but I know that she made an impact on this world while she was here,” she said.

News Center 7 also spoke to Brianna’s grandfather today. He said the hardest thing for the entire family to deal with was not that someone him her, but that someone drove away without checking on her. Then to have that person now pass away and not stand trial is just another blow.

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