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Teen remembered as "all around good kid"
The Northwest Whitfield High School student killed in a car wreck on Sunday was trying to get home before his midnight curfew and made a wrong turn, his grandfather said.
Allen Headrick, grandfather of 16-year-old Timothy Hunter Quinton, said Hunter was coming home from a friend’s house when he made a wrong turn toward Villanow.
“He called his mama about 10 (minutes) after 11 (p.m.),” Headrick said, “and he had no sense of direction, but he had got turned around.”
Headrick said the 1:30 a.m. time of death reported in Monday’s Daily Citizen and attributed to a Georgia State Patrol operator was incorrect. Headrick said Hunter’s father became worried and went looking for him, finding him dead at the scene. Emergency crews arrived later. On Monday, Whitfield County coroner Bobbie Dixon confirmed the time of death as being shortly before midnight.
The Nissan Frontier pickup Hunter was driving left a straight stretch of road, struck a culvert and mailbox and flipped over several times. The accident occurred on Ga. Highway 201 at Jimmy Drive. The teen was not wearing a seat belt. There were no passengers.
A complete report was not available on Monday. However, Headrick said the last anyone heard from Hunter was when he sent a text message to a friend at 11:48 p.m. saying he planned to arrive home shortly.
Hunter’s aunt, Amanda Cantrell, said her nephew was active in his church, Eleventh Avenue Baptist, where a visitation was held on Monday. Services are there Tuesday at 4 p.m.
“He was actually saved last summer with the youth group at a camp that they went to,” she said.
Hunter planned to spend the night with his youth pastor’s son, but had to go home first to get a change of clothes, she said.
“He was just an all around good kid — never got in trouble as far as school,” Cantrell said. “He wasn’t one of the rebellious kids. He was always where he was supposed to be.”
Cantrell said Hunter loved basketball, hunting, fishing and camping. Last year, he was a manager for the school basketball team. He attended Pleasant Grove Elementary School and North Whitfield Middle School before coming to Northwest Whitfield. He was also a Whitfield Career Academy student but was planning to return to Northwest the following semester, his family said. On Saturday’s, he helped his grandfather at Al’s Used Cars on Glenwood Avenue.
Since his death, the family has received an outpouring of support from the community and Northwest Whitfield.
“We are very, very lucky to have friends,” Cantrell said, “and our church family has really stepped up and has been there (for the family).”
Hunter turned 16 on Sept. 1 and received his driver’s license not long after.
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