Grieving Roxboro mom hopes Facebook post helps solve son's death

ROXBORO, N.C. -

The State Highway Patrol and the Person County Sheriff's Office are taking a fresh look at an unsolved hit-and-run case where a young man Roxboro man was killed in 2001.

A posting on a Facebook confession page has created renewed interest in the case of Nathan Poole, whose family has been hoping for justice for 14 years.

I hope justice is served, said the post on the Facebook page. His family deserves answers and I'm praying the confession that was made will start the ball rolling getting them those answers.

Nathan Poole's mother, father and aunt poured over the comments made to the Roxboro confessions page in response to an anonymous posting that claims to know who killed Nathan Poole, 22, in 2001.

That case remains unsolved.

It went cold, said Diane Cook, his aunt.

It seemed like it just went downhill, said Wanda Howerton, his mother.

On April 8, 2001, Poole was walking home along Roxboro's Mountain Road at about 2 a.m. He was on a stretch that runs between Halifax and Allensville roads.

He was struck by a truck that hit him, dragged him and left him on the side of the road like an animal, said Cook.

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Grieving Roxboro mom hopes Facebook post helps solve son's death