KWES NewsWest 9 / Midland, Odessa, Big Spring, TX: newswest9.com | Neighbors Describe Fatal Car-Pedestrian Accident in Midland

By Geena Martinez
NewsWest 9

MIDLAND - We're learning new details about a man who was hit and killed by an SUV Saturday night. Police are now investigating it as a homicide.

NewsWest 9 spoke with neighbors who actually saw the chaos unfold. 

"It was really, really loud," six-year-old Mallory said.

"Like somebody hit a car," her grandmother, Ofelia Lujan said.

Lujan had just gotten home Saturday afternoon in the 1200 block of East Parker when her granddaughter started yelling for her.

"Grandma! Grandma! Something happened! A man got run over by a truck!" Mallory told her grandmother.

Mallory was standing by the front door and witnessed the entire thing.

"He was walking on the street and he saw the car and he was on the side and then he got on the sidewalk," Mallory said. "It went real, real hard and it was speeding and it ran over the man."

Little Mallory said she saw the victim's body tossed in the air.

He was identified as 28-year-old Cody Gibson and police said it was 19-year old Keithan Seales who was behind the wheel.

Investigators were out on Saturday night for a few hours retracing the tracks of that vehicle. The tracks look like they started in front of one driveway and traveled westbound down Parker St.

That's when an Expedition came up onto the curb in front of a mailbox, struck Gibson and his body landed in front of a white car. The Ford Expedition lost a tire but Seales kept on driving down Parker St. before his vehicle finally came to a stop in front of another home.

Ofelia looked out the window, then ran over to Gibson.

"He said 'Help, help help!'" Ofelia said. "I didn't know what to do."

"All the people were telling him not get up," Mallory said. "They got a gallon of water and towel. Everything, everything was cut on his forehead."

Gibson later died at Midland Memorial Hospital.

The Midland Police Department hasn't released any specific details about the accident.

Keithan Seales is currently at the Midland County Jail facing murder charges.

"Oh my God, why did he do that? Why did he have the nerve to do that?" Ofelia said. "It's a human, you know. I feel so sorry for the man."