Mississippi judge declares mistrial in murder case

Published 9:36 pm Thursday, May 25, 2017

PURVIS (AP) — A mistrial has been declared in the murder trial of a woman accused of running over her 71-year-old boyfriend in Mississippi.

Hattiesburg American reports a jury couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict Tuesday in the trial of 41-year-old Carrie Lea Reynolds, who is accused of hitting William Foster with his own vehicle in 2014.

Reynolds was charged with second-degree murder after Foster died from a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain three days after the incident. Reynolds said Foster seemed fine when she called him after leaving in his truck.

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Hattiesburg police detective Neal Rockhold testified Reynolds said Foster started a fight while she was driving, before exiting and trying to pull her from the truck.