Alex Desalis, 16, died on Sunday from his injuries after he fell from a Jeep Wrangler the day before

The parents of a 16-year-old Georgia teen who tragically died from his injuries after he fell from a moving Jeep denied he was car surfing.

Alex Desalis suffered extensive brain injuries and two punctured lungs after he fell off the hood of his friend's Jeep Wrangler on Saturday.

Kenneth Guthrie said his son had jokingly asked his friend for a ride to a cemetary just down the road before the accident.

'It wasn't a car surfing adventure,' he told WTSP.

'It was him climbing up on the hood of her car, on all fours more than likely being funny, trying to get a laugh by twerking.'

Michelle Guthrie said her son fell off the hood of the car on his head and was partially run over.

'It was instantaneous,' Guthrie told the Atlanta Journal Constitution. 'He felt no pain.'

Alex was on life support at Grady Memorial Hospital when Guthrie decided to let her youngest child go 'peacefully'.

'He was already gone,' the devastated mother said. 'I knew in my heart he was gone.'

He died just before 8pm on Sunday from injuries, on the same day as his grandmother's seventy-first birthday.

Charges are pending against the driver of the Jeep, who is also 16 years old, but Michelle Guthrie said she doesn't want the girl to face probation or jail time.

'It was an accident,' she told WTSP. 'We feel more bad for the family - for what they're going through as well.'

Michelle Guthrie remembers her son as a teen that loved making everyone around him laugh and was already taking a cosmetology class in hopes of becoming a hairstylist.

'Everybody knew him and everyone loved him,' she said.

Alex's cousin Hollie Ann Rigs said the teen was 'far beyond his years'.

'He was kind, understanding and compassionate,' she wrote on a YouCaring page she set for donations to his funeral arrangements.

'He was a friend to all and gave great fashion advice.'

'Alex please watch over us and guide us through the coming days. You are so loved and missed.'

The Dallas, Georgia teen was on life support after he suffered extensive brain injuries and two punctured lungs. His mother Michelle Guthrie decided to let her son go 'peacefully' and he died on Sunday