Negro Appears in Court After Killing White School Teacher While Fleeing from Police

19 Action News
August 8, 2015

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James G Caffrey was run over and killed by a Negro criminal who was trying to escape from the police.

The man arrested in the deadly hit and run of a Shaker Heights school teacher appeared in court Friday.

Derick Allan Ward, 45, of Cleveland was taken into custody by Shaker Heights Police Department and charged with aggravated vehicular homicide in connection with the hit and run death of Caffrey.

His bond was set at $1.5 million.

Caffrey was a 51-year-old fifth grade teacher at Woodbury School in Shaker Heights who was jogging down South Park Boulevard at about 5:30 p.m., on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, when a vehicle driven by Ward struck him from behind causing his death.

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Derick Allan Ward carried on running on foot, after smashing into and killing the White school teacher.

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