DAVENPORT, Iowa — Editor's note: The attached video is from Jan. 20, 2021
A district court found a Davenport man not guilty of homicide in the death of a man he hit with his vehicle and dragged under his car on Jan. 18.
Mark Blackwood, 64, was not convicted with homicide, but on Tuesday, Dec. 14, District Court Judge Mark Fowler found him guilty of leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in death.
Judge Fowler found that prosecutors proved during the trial that Blackwood knew he hit Johnson but did not prove he knew Johnson was under the car when he kept driving.
Investigators said Blackwood had hit 60-year-old Eric Johnson of Rock Island on Jan. 18. Johnson was dragged about 2,050 feet after the crash.
Davenport Police Department had previously reported the victim found lying in the street across from Genesis West. Johnson's body was found in the 2600 block of Fillmore Lane, and authorities said he was initially hit in the 1900 block of Washington Street near the Taco Bell on Locust.
Johnson was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.