Sampson Co. man sentenced to 18 years in prison for 7-year-old's hit-and-run death
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is investigating a Roseboro-based company that employed a driver who was charged in the hit-and-run death Tuesday of a 7-year-old girl.
Posted — UpdatedJohnny Allen Spell, 39, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and several other charges in the April 23, 2013, death of Alyiah McKenzie Morgan, who was getting off a school bus at her home on U.S. Highway 421 in Harrells.
Authorities say Spell, who was driving a logging truck, passed the stopped bus, hit Morgan and kept driving.
He later called his boss and said he went into the other lane to keep from hitting the bus. He said he thought he hit someone but was scared and kept driving.
Spell also pleaded guilty to passing a stopped school bus, felony hit-and-run and driving while impaired while operating a commercial motor vehicle.
Morgan was a first-grader at Union Elementary School.
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