Sexual assault charges filed against Texas delivery man accused of killing 7-year-old girl - NBC News

Prosecutors charged the FedEx driver, arrested this period and accused of sidesplitting a 7-year-old girl, with the alleged intersexual battle of a minor, jailhouse records successful Texas revealed.

Tanner Lynn Horner, 31, had been booked into custody and charged with superior execution and aggravated kidnapping, and Wise County jailhouse records present amusement he's besides facing 3 counts of intersexual battle connected a child.

It is not wide if the caller charges are related to the decease of Athena Strand.

Horner had told investigators the miss was not earnestly injured erstwhile helium accidentally backed his motortruck into her, according to an apprehension warrant affidavit.

The fishy told investigators that helium “panicked” and feared “she was going to archer her begetter astir being deed by the FedEx motortruck the Defendant was operating,” starring him to strangle her, the affidavit said.

Horner's lawyer and representatives for Wise County District Attorney James Stainton and Sheriff Lane Akin could not beryllium instantly reached for remark connected Wednesday.

The girl's father, Jacob Strand, has filed a lawsuit against the transportation driver, FedEx and the contractor who hired Horner.

The plaintiff claims that FedEx holds “significant control” implicit employees and contractors who present packages. He accused FedEx and Big Topspin, the contractor who hired Horner, of negligence.