22 year old Jason Strickland turned himself into Columbia police Wednesday night in connection with the hit and run that killed 62 year old Benito Fuentez.
      He's charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident, failure to render aid and reckless vehicular homicide.
  
   This was the route Benito Fuentez took .

His boss, Rick Saxby says, "Every day he'd walk to work."

Fuentez was a groundskeeper at the Stoneybrook Golf Course in Columbia.

His son says, " He wake up 3am take his lunch and start walking to work."

    Columbia police say some time after  he left his apartment for the three mile walk----  a car crossed  over Campbellsville Pike and hit the  landscaper.

  A few hours later, another driver saw his body in the ditch and called police.   In this exclusive interview,   Fuentez's son expresses his sadness and frustration.

Oscar Andrade says, "I just ask the person why he didn't stop?  Maybe he can save my father."
 
The 62 year old Fuentez  had 20 grandchildren.

  The GM of the golf course says, "He'd bring the grand kids in here to buy them candy or snack chips. The grand kids were just gorgeous."

Columbia police say  the driver crossed over the center line and hit Fuentez from behind.

Lt.  Jeremy Alsup with the  Columbia Police Department says, "All indications tell us Mr. Fuentez was walking on the correct side of  the road facing traffic."

A resident who lives along Campbellsville Pike,  Rick Primm,  says,
"There's no way I'd walk up and down this road.  You're taking your life in your own hands."  

   Back at the golf course, the manager says Fuentez left his mark in more ways than one.  "He's  left his fingerprints his handprints all over the golf course as far his outstanding work and he did it with such exhuberance and joy every day. It's a tragedy beyond words."

Columbia man killed in hit and run