Son of Celebrity Wrestler Dies in Motorcycle Accident

Nineteen-year-old Colton Rood, the son of late legendary wrestler Ravishing Rick Rude, was killed Labor Day weekend in a motorcycle wreck in northwestern Georgia near Rome. 

Floyd County police officer Ron Hunton said Rood was traveling south on Floyd Springs Road on a 2014 Yamaha 950 motorcycle when a 2010 silver Toyota Camry turned into his path at around 2:50 p.m.

The driver of the Camry, 58-year-old Tonita Jo Rudd of Kennesaw, was northbound and was trying to turn left into a driveway, Hunton added.

She was charged with misdemeanor vehicular homicide and failure to yield
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