MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – A special judge in Murfreesboro has dismissed additional charges against a former sheriff’s detective in the traffic death of an 11-year-old Kentucky girl.
Ron Killings had been found not guilty earlier this year on a reckless homicide charge in the 2008 death of Lakeisha White of Hopkinsville, Ky. She was struck by a Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office patrol car driven by Killings as she crossed a Murfreesboro street.
The Daily News Journal reported Judge Royce Taylor threw out charges of evidence tampering and filing a false police report on Friday, saying they didn’t apply because there was “no criminal episode.”
After dismissing the ancillary charges, Taylor said what Killings did after the crash is not relevant.
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Information from: The Daily News Journal, http://www.dnj.com