CHESAPEAKE, Va. — A jury found Richard Humbert, 39, guilty of a felony hit-and-run charge on Tuesday. He’s the man accused, and now convicted, of hitting 8-year-old Forrest Hooper on South Battlefield Boulevard last October and leaving the scene.
“I will sleep well tonight,” Hooper’s grandmother, Cindy Lutz, said Tuesday evening. “Justice was served today.”
The jury deliberated for approximately six hours, breaking once in the afternoon to ask counsel and the judge a question, and again for lunch…