In the early morning hours of Saturday, the St. Tammany Sheriff’s Office was notified that an individual, later identified as Joel Evans Cairns, wished to surrender himself to deputies regarding a hit and run crash involving two juveniles on a bicycle. Shortly after 5:30pm on Friday STPSO deputies were dispatched to the area of Beau Chene Drive and Oak Drive, in the Beau Chene subdivision in Mandeville. The vehicle struck the juveniles who were riding together on a single bicycle. A 13-year-old female and a 6-year -old male were transported to a local-area hospital. The 13-year-old sustained non-life-threatening injuries and the 6-year-old was airlifted to a Southshore hospital in critical condition. Cairns, a Mandeville-area resident, was taken into custody without incident and later booked into the St. Tammany Parish Jail on the following charges: 2 Counts of Felony Hit And Run, 1 Count of Careless Operation and 1 Count of Driving Under Suspension.
