Female Black Arrested for Hit and Run That Killed 5-Year-Old White Child

WFXG
November 6, 2015

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Robert Jack Moorhead was run over and killed by a Black driver who then fled the scene.

Bond has been set for a woman suspected in a fatal hit-and-run collision that killed a Kilgore 5-year-old.

Kyrsten Nycole McCarty, 25, of Kilgore, was arrested Monday and booked into the Kilgore Municipal Jail. She was later transferred to the Gregg County Jail, where she is being held on $75,000 bond for a charge of accident involving death.

According to police, McCarty was driving a silver 2006 Dodge Caravan on Sunday when she allegedly struck and killed Robert Jack Moorhead. The vehicle has been located and seized by police.

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Kyrsten Nycole McCarty tried to lead police astray with fake Facebook postings showing concern that the child-killer would be caught.

On Monday afternoon at 4:36, Gregg County Justice of the Peace Talyna Carlson issued a warrant of arrest for McCarty. She was arrested and booked into the Kilgore Municipal Jail.

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