Background: Haley Layman being arrested Tuesday, April 1, 2025 (Grundy County Sheriff’s Office). Inset: Victim Bobby Green with his daughter Clara Green (GoFundMe).
A father in Tennessee was run down by a 25-year-old woman while riding his bicycle on Monday night, according to cops and family members who have accused the driver of covering her tracks with car repairs and Facebook posts eulogizing the slain dad, saying “rest in peace” and “you’re going to be missed so much.”
Haley Layman, of Grundy County, allegedly took to social media just one day after hitting and killing Bobby Green at the intersection of Rock Avenue and Main Street in Palmer, according to a Grundy County Sheriff’s Office press release.
Local ABC and Fox affiliate WTVC spoke to Green’s daughter, Clara Green, about the Facebook posts and her father’s horrific injuries.
“She hit him so hard that it … tore up his right leg and ripped his pinky off on his right hand,” Clara Green said, recalling how a woman living nearby came to help after Layman reportedly took off and didn’t call 911. “She went and got a flashlight and found him, and she went and got a blanket for him because he said he was cold and sat there and prayed with him,” Clara Green said about the good Samaritan.
Police say in Layman’s arrest report, which was obtained by WTVC, that she confessed to drinking on Monday night and being intoxicated during the incident, which she claimed is why she fled. Layman allegedly admitted to taking her car to “to a neighboring county in efforts to conceal or tamper with evidence of the crime” as word spread online about Green’s death, according to the report.
“The Tennessee Highway Patrol officer said that he had a piece of the headlight and stuff, and then someone else said that the windshield wiper was ripped off the car, too,” Clara Green said about the scene of the alleged hit-and-run.
Police say Green died while being transported to the hospital. On Tuesday, Layman allegedly took to Facebook and shared a post from Clara about her father’s death, which said: “I know I don’t post a lot of personal stuff and I never ask for anything, but please if anyone knows who hit my daddy Bobby Dan Green Green from the back while he was riding his bike down the road going toward Palmer market (pretty sure it was intentional because they came back after they hit him looked at him and left).”
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The post was still on Layman’s page Thursday, along with an alleged repost of the original Grundy County Sheriff’s Office press release about the incident.
“Knowing you did it and shared this is diabolical,” a user commented.
“Wild that you posted this knowing it was you,” another said.
Layman deleted the alleged posts memorializing Green, but Clara Green told WTVC she saw them herself and commented on Layman’s page in response. Screenshots have also been shared on Facebook by Clara Green — who has launched a GoFundMe for her father’s cremation costs — and others.
“I’ll pray for you,” Clara Green told Layman, per WTVC. “I don’t hate you. I just wish you would have made a different decision that night to not drink and drive.”
Speaking to WTVC, the grieving daughter said: “All I can say is I just wish she would have done the right thing.”
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