WVSP: Deputy who killed 13-year-old in Huntington not intoxicated

UPDATE (4:49 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 1): According to Sergeant B.K. Wellman with the West Virginia State Police, the deputy who hit and killed a 13-ye...

January 2, 2023
8:14 AM

UPDATE (4:49 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 1): According to Sergeant B.K. Wellman with the West Virginia State Police, the deputy who hit and killed a 13-year-old girl in a cruiser was not intoxicated at the time of the accident. He said that the off-duty deputy passed field sobriety tests at the scene. Wellman also says that witnesses told police that the deputy had a green light at the intersection where the accident occurred. It is unclear, according to Wellman, why the off-duty deputy was in a cruiser at the time.

Bailey Brautigan