MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – A former sheriff’s detective on trial for reckless homicide says he felt helpless after his vehicle struck a Kentucky girl.
Ron Killings – who was a detective for the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office – testified tearfully Thursday in the July 2008 death of 11-year-old Lakeisha White of Hopkinsville, Ky.
He said after that the impact, “I stayed there and at that point I was looking at her. I couldn’t do anything for her.”
He testified he first ran to the front of his vehicle, then the back looking for her – when he saw where she had been thrown to the side of the road.
Killings said he ran to her and checked for a pulse and asked her if she were OK.