The day after a clothes dryer fell from his truck and onto the northbound lanes of I-75 causing a deadly crash, Jose Luna Gonzales returned to the same Jonesboro Home Depot to buy another dryer.As he did a day earlier, Gonzales, police say, paid $300 cash.
 
But this time, according to police, he left his first name and cellphone number with the cashier, who talked to him about an extended warranty.That cashier left work and didn't return to her job for two days — unaware police had been trying to find Gonzales to question him about the crash.And after buying the second dryer, Gonzales left for South Carolina — unaware, he told police, that someone had been killed on the highway after swerving to avoid the dryer.On Sunday, Gonzales, a 25-year-old contract construction worker from Hapeville, remained in the Clayton County Jail on second-degree vehicular homicide and other misdemeanor charges.
 
Police said they were fortunate to find Gonzales, who initially left few clues, except for blurry video footage captured on Home Depot's surveillance system.That video, which showed Gonzales and his young son pushing the dryer through the parking lot, was aired on television.In the end, it was the cashier, police said, who helped solve the case."Absolutely," said Capt. Jeff Turner, a spokesman for the Clayton County Police Department. Without the information, he said, police "still would be at loss."Gonzales was arrested Friday night and made his first court appearance for a bond hearing Saturday — the same day Michael Robert Hall, the director of the MBA program at Clark Atlanta University, was laid to rest.Hall, 43, was returning from his sons' preseason baseball game in McDonough when he swerved to avoid the dryer on I-75 north near Forest Park.