Good Samaritan killed in traffic on Johns Island

24-year-old Aubrey Heyward of Johns Island knew he could be late for his new job, but he still pulled over Monday morning to help a person whose vehicle was in a ditch on the side of the road. It was while he was trying to get that driver medical help that he was struck and killed.

Heyward and his mother were driving on Bohicket Road around 5:30 am Monday on their way to drop him off at his new job at Global Aeronautica in North Charleston. Heading just past Edenvale Rd he saw a white blazer on the opposite side of the road in a ditch.

"I got to pull over and help him out," Teresa Heyward recalls her son saying. "He put on his flashers, turned around and pulled up behind the other car."

Police say the driver of that vehicle 22-year-old Michael Kutch was intoxicated.

"He kept walking out in the street and Aubrey knew how dangerous the road is so he kept pushing him back out of the way," says Teresa. A Personal Care Ambulance stopped on the other side of the road.

Aubry was in-between his mothers vehicle and ambulance when a copper colored Kia struck him. "All I heard was a thumb," says Teresa, "then I saw one of his shoes ,then the other, then I saw him. The car carried him down the street and knocked him out of half his clothes."

Teresa Heyward called 9-11 and her husband. "She kept screaming 'he got hit, he got hit'," says Sam Heyward. He says he woke up when Aubrey and Teresa left and he was just falling back asleep when the phone rang.

The couple watched as emergency personnel worked on their son, he was later pronounced dead at MUSC.

Police say the driver of the Kia was 25-year-old Leonard Garrison. He was issued a citation for driving Too Fast for Conditions.

"I just want to know what was on that young man's mind that he didn't slow down like all the rest of the cars," questions Teresa Heyward. The Charleston County Sheriff's Office says the incident is still under investigation.

"I feel good know my son died trying to help another person," says Sam Heyward. Aubrey had two younger siblings and was known for being funny and athletic.

"I was laying in bed and just had to say out loud 'My nephew is a hero'," said one his aunts as family talked about arrangements for a funeral this Saturday.

Michael Kutch was arrest for Driving Under the Influence and taken to county jail after the accident.