MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Opening statements come today in the trial of a former Tennessee sheriff’s detective in the traffic death of an 11-year-old Kentucky girl.
Lakeisha White of Hopkinsville, Ky., was visiting relatives in Murfreesboro and was crossing a street in July 2008 when she was struck and killed by a Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office car driven by then- Detective Sgt. Ron Killings.
He is charged with reckless homicide.
The Daily News Journal reports aA jury of four men and 10 women were selected in Chattanooga on Monday to serve on the jury.
Killings also faces charges of filing a false report and tampering with evidence, but will be tried separately on those counts.