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East Broad Avenue Motorcycle Accident in Albany, GA: Terrance Davis Arrested in Texas in the Death of Dyllin Fallin
Nearly seven months after a motorcyclist was killed on East Broad Avenue, the man named in warrants as the suspected driver has been taken into custody in Texas. Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards confirmed the arrest on Tuesday.
Key facts
- What
- An arrest in the February hit-and-run accident that killed an Albany motorcyclist
- Who was killed
- Dyllin Fallin, 31
- Who was arrested
- Terrance Davis, 28 — accused, not convicted
- Where the arrest happened
- Texas
- Warrant charge named
- First-degree homicide by vehicle, among other charges
- Accident location
- East Broad Avenue, Albany, Dougherty County
- Accident date
- About 2 a.m., Monday, Feb. 2, 2026
- Investigating agency
- Albany Police Department
- Prosecutor
- Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards
- Status
- In custody in Texas awaiting extradition, the district attorney said Aug. 25, 2026
- Who was arrested, and what do the warrants allege?
- What happened on East Broad Avenue?
- How did the case reach an arrest?
- What does first-degree homicide by vehicle require in Georgia?
- What does Georgia law say about leaving an accident scene?
- How does extradition from Texas to Georgia work?
- What separates a warrant, an indictment and a conviction?
- How many motorcyclists die on Georgia roads?
- What other fatal accidents has Albany seen this month?
- What we don’t know yet
- Frequently asked questions
Who was arrested, and what do the warrants allege?
Terrance Davis, 28, was taken into custody in Texas, Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards confirmed on Tuesday, WALB reported.
Davis remained in Texas awaiting extradition to Georgia as of the district attorney’s confirmation, and the outstanding warrants against him include a count of first-degree homicide by vehicle.
The Albany Police Department investigated the accident, and officers have described Davis as the only person suspected in it.
Davis is accused rather than convicted. Under both Georgia and federal law he is presumed innocent, and that presumption stands until a court says otherwise. Nothing in the warrants is a finding of fact.
What happened on East Broad Avenue?
Dyllin Fallin, 31, was riding a motorcycle along East Broad Avenue in Albany at roughly 2 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 2, when a Dodge Charger that had been reported stolen struck him, Albany police have said.
Fallin was pronounced dead where the accident happened. The Dougherty County coroner confirmed the death that same day.
WALB describes the collision as a hit-and-run. That single fact — the departure from the scene — is what separates the felony grade of vehicular homicide named in the warrants from the misdemeanor grade Georgia applies to most other fatal traffic violations.
Davis himself was badly hurt in the collision and spent a long stretch in critical condition in a hospital afterward, according to investigators. He was later released.
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How did the case reach an arrest?
The file sat open for close to seven months. Warrants had been issued by early March, and for most of the period that followed the person named on them was not in Georgia.
| Date | Development |
|---|---|
| Feb. 2, 2026, about 2 a.m. | A motorcycle is struck on East Broad Avenue in Albany by a stolen Dodge Charger |
| Feb. 2, 2026 | The Dougherty County coroner confirms the rider, Dyllin Fallin, has died |
| March 5, 2026 | Albany police say active warrants have been issued and ask the public for help finding the driver |
| July 15, 2026 | Police say they believe the man named in the warrants has left Georgia; no arrest has been made |
| Aug. 25, 2026 | The district attorney confirms an arrest in Texas and says extradition is pending |
By midsummer the case had become a public one. Fallin’s relatives spoke to reporters in July about the wait, and his family had welcomed his newborn child in the months after his death.
What does first-degree homicide by vehicle require in Georgia?
Georgia does not treat every fatal traffic accident the same way. The state grades vehicular homicide by which traffic offense produced the death, and the grade drives the sentence.
One route to the first degree runs through a short list of serious driving offenses. The Georgia Court of Appeals described that route this July, explaining that to prove first-degree vehicular homicide under O.C.G.A. § 40-6-393(a) the State had to establish that the defendant, while driving and without malice aforethought, caused a death by violating the statute defining driving under the influence.
The second route is the one that fits a driver who leaves. Quoting the statute in a 2020 decision, the Court of Appeals set out subsection (b) in full: any driver who, without malice aforethought, causes an accident which causes the death of another person and leaves the scene of the accident in violation of subsection (b) of Code Section 40-6-270 commits homicide by vehicle in the first degree and, on conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than three years nor more than 15 years.
The same decision holds that knowledge is an element the State must allege for the underlying leaving-the-scene offense. A charging document that omits it charges the lesser grade.
That lesser grade is subsection (c). The Court of Appeals quoted it in 2024: a person who causes the death of another without intending to, by violating any provision of the motor vehicle title other than the specific sections the statute carves out, commits homicide by vehicle in the second degree. The appellate court has called it the lesser misdemeanor offense.
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What does Georgia law say about leaving an accident scene?
The duty a driver owes after a collision sits in O.C.G.A. § 40-6-270, last amended in 2008. Subsection (a) requires a driver in an accident that injures or kills someone to stop at the scene or return to it, give a name, address and vehicle registration number, show a licence on request, and render reasonable assistance to anyone hurt.
Where the injured person is unconscious or unable to communicate, subsection (a) also requires every reasonable effort to see that emergency medical services and local law enforcement are called. The statute says the driver shall in every event remain at the scene until those requirements are met.
Subsection (b) makes it a felony, punishable by one to five years, to knowingly fail to stop and comply with subsection (a) when the accident is the proximate cause of a death or a serious injury. That is the subsection the first-degree vehicular homicide statute points back to by name, which is why a departure from a fatal scene can lift the homicide count from a misdemeanor to a felony carrying a possible 15-year sentence.
How does extradition from Texas to Georgia work?
Two paths exist, and they run at very different speeds.
The fast path is waiver. A person arrested in another state can agree to return and give up a contest, and cases that go this way tend to close in days or a few weeks rather than months.
The slow path is a formal demand between governors. 18 U.S.C. § 3182 sets out how that works: the demanding state produces a copy of an indictment, or an affidavit made before a magistrate, charging the person with treason, felony or other crime, certified as authentic by that state’s governor. The state where the person has been found must then arrest and secure the person and hand the person over to an agent sent to receive the fugitive.
The same section carries a deadline. If no agent appears within thirty days of the arrest, the statute says, the prisoner may be discharged. That thirty-day figure replaced a six-month window when the provision was recast in 1948.
What separates a warrant, an indictment and a conviction?
An arrest warrant is a judicial officer’s finding that there is probable cause to take a named person into custody. It is a charging step, not a determination that anything happened.
An indictment is a grand jury’s formal accusation, returned after prosecutors present evidence. It carries a case into court but proves nothing on its own.
A conviction is what closes the gap, and it arrives only through a guilty plea or a verdict reached beyond a reasonable doubt. The federal extradition statute accepts either an indictment or a sworn affidavit as the paperwork for a demand, so a case can cross a state line well before a grand jury has ever looked at it.
How many motorcyclists die on Georgia roads?
Motorcyclists make up a small share of Georgia’s traffic and a large share of its traffic deaths.
Georgia recorded 1,403 motor vehicle crash deaths in 2024, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s analysis of federal Fatality Analysis Reporting System data, published in June 2026.
Of those, 182 were motorcyclists — 13 percent of all the state’s crash deaths that year. Car occupants accounted for 428 and pedestrians for 286.
Georgia’s overall death rate worked out to 12.5 per 100,000 residents and 1.15 per 100 million vehicle miles travelled, against a national toll of 39,254 deaths.
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What other fatal accidents has Albany seen this month?
Dougherty County has recorded several serious traffic accidents in August. A bicyclist was killed on North Westover Boulevard on Aug. 19, and two people died in a van accident on Wildfair Road on Aug. 13.
Earlier in the month, a school bus accident at Liberty Expressway and Williamsburg Road drew a multi-agency response.
More Albany and Dougherty County coverage sits on the Dougherty County page.
What we don’t know yet
- Which subsection of Georgia’s vehicular homicide statute the warrant rests on, and the full list of counts beyond first-degree homicide by vehicle.
- The exact date of the arrest in Texas, the agency that made it, and the county where Davis is being held.
- Whether Davis will waive extradition or contest the transfer to Georgia.
- How investigators located him after police said in July that they believed he had left Georgia.
- Who owned the Dodge Charger and when it was reported stolen.
- Whether a Dougherty County grand jury has been presented with the case.
- Whether Davis has counsel, and any statement from him or on his behalf.
Frequently asked questions
Who was killed in the East Broad Avenue motorcycle accident in Albany, GA?
Dyllin Fallin, 31, of Albany. Albany police have said he was riding a motorcycle on East Broad Avenue at roughly 2 a.m. on Feb. 2, 2026, when a stolen Dodge Charger hit him, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Who was arrested, and where was the arrest made?
Terrance Davis, 28. Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards confirmed on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026, that Davis had been taken into custody in Texas and was awaiting extradition to Georgia. Davis is accused, not convicted, and is presumed innocent unless a court finds otherwise.
What charge do the warrants name?
The outstanding warrants include first-degree homicide by vehicle, along with several other charges. Albany police said in March 2026 that active warrants had been issued for his arrest.
What is first-degree homicide by vehicle under Georgia law?
Georgia grades vehicular homicide by the traffic offense that caused the death. Under O.C.G.A. 40-6-393(b), a driver who without malice aforethought causes an accident that kills someone and then leaves the scene in violation of subsection (b) of Code Section 40-6-270 commits homicide by vehicle in the first degree, punishable on conviction by three to 15 years in prison. Subsection (a) reaches deaths caused by offenses including driving under the influence. Subsection (c) covers deaths caused by other traffic violations and is the lesser misdemeanor grade.
How does extradition from Texas to Georgia work?
A person can waive extradition and consent to return, which shortens the process to a matter of days or a few weeks. If extradition is contested, the demanding state’s governor makes a formal demand. Under 18 U.S.C. 3182, that demand is supported by an indictment or an affidavit made before a magistrate, certified as authentic by the governor of the demanding state. The state holding the person then arrests and secures the person and hands the person to an agent of the demanding state. The same section says that if no agent appears within thirty days of the arrest, the prisoner may be discharged.
Which agencies handled the case?
The Albany Police Department investigated the accident. The Dougherty County District Attorney’s office, led by Greg Edwards, is the prosecuting authority. Police have described Davis as the only suspect in the case.
Sources
- WALB — Man arrested in Texas following deadly Albany motorcycle crash, Aug. 25, 2026. District Attorney Greg Edwards’ confirmation of the arrest and pending extradition, the first-degree homicide by vehicle warrant, and the Feb. 2 accident details.
- WALB — Albany police searching for driver charged in deadly motorcycle crash, March 5, 2026. Active warrants and the Albany Police Department’s public appeal.
- WALB — Albany family demands justice for man killed in motorcycle crash, suspect remains at large, July 15, 2026. Police belief that the suspect had left the state, the extended hospitalisation, sole-suspect status and the family’s account.
- WALB — UPDATE: Albany man dies following early morning crash on East Broad Avenue, Feb. 2, 2026. The Dougherty County coroner’s same-day confirmation of the death.
- Mitchell v. State — Court of Appeals of Georgia, April 21, 2020, quoting O.C.G.A. § 40-6-393(b) in full, its three-to-15-year sentence, its cross-reference to O.C.G.A. § 40-6-270(b), and the knowledge element.
- Smith v. State — Court of Appeals of Georgia, July 31, 2024, quoting O.C.G.A. § 40-6-393(c), second-degree homicide by vehicle.
- Smith v. State — Court of Appeals of Georgia, July 14, 2026, on the elements of first-degree vehicular homicide under O.C.G.A. § 40-6-393(a).
- Office of the Law Revision Counsel — 18 U.S.C. § 3182, Fugitives from State or Territory, text in effect Aug. 24, 2026, including the thirty-day provision and the 1948 revision note.
- Insurance Institute for Highway Safety — Fatality Facts, state by state, 2024 data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, posted June 2026. Georgia totals and the motorcyclist, car occupant and pedestrian breakdown.
Compiled by The Local Alert Georgia Staff from WALB’s reporting on the Dougherty County District Attorney and Albany Police Department, and from the court opinions, federal statute and safety data linked above. Terrance Davis has been accused and is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. The Local Alert is not a law enforcement agency and not a law firm. Corrections and removal requests: see our corrections policy.
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