UPDATED, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 6, 12:20 P.M.:
According to his obituary, Chitwood was a graduate of Lassiter High School and had recently begun a company breeding Koi fish.
Chitwood’s survivors include his wife and two children.
A celebration of life service is scheduled for Saturday at Fellowship Bible Church in Roswell: “All are welcome, to honor Cody, Hawaiian attire suggested.”
ORIGINAL REPORT:
Cobb Police said Monday that a man was killed and another was injured over the weekend in a single-vehicle crash on Blackwell Road in Northeast Cobb.
Officer Aaron Wilson said that Cody Chitwood, 29, of Marietta, was driving a 2023 Subaru WRX around 2:47 a.m. Saturday, heading eastbound on Blackwell Road near Autumn Ridge Drive, when the car left the road for unknown reasons.
Wilson said the Subaru veered into a vegetated embankment and smashed through a wooden fenced before coming to a stop between two trees.
Police said Chitwood was pronounced dead on the scene and a passenger in the Subaru, Travis Goode, 29, of Willacoochee, sustained minor injuries.
Wilson said the crash remains under investigation and that anyone with information is asked to call Cobb Police at at 770-499-3987.
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