PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A 22-year-old Providence man has been sent to the Adult Correctional Institutions in connection with a hit-and-run accident on Monday that critically injured a 5 year-old boy.
The boy, Kharon Pon,is at Hasbro Children's Hospital, where his condition was upgraded Tuesday afternoon to "serious."
Police arrested Terrell Taylor after he returned to the scene of the hit-and-run on Linwood Avenue while they were investigating the accident around 6 p.m. Monday. He was ordered held on $20,000 bail Tuesday in a District Court arraignment on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident, injury or death resulting.
Court spokesman Craig Berke said Taylor was sent to the ACI after failing to make bail. Berke noted that Taylor was already on a two-year probation that began when he pleaded no contest in February to a charge indecent exposure, subsequent offense, stemming from an incident on Aug. 28, 2011.
At the time Taylor was ordered to undergo mental-health treatment and to have no contact with his victim.
-- Earlier versions of this report were published at 9:59 and 11:37 a.m.
-- With reports from Journal staff writer Amanda Milkovits and Richard C. Dujardin