A Hopkinsville man was arrested over the weekend on an indictment warrant for reckless homicide in connection to a December 2019 wreck that claimed the life of a Cerulean mother and her 11-year old daughter.
According to an arrest citation, 35-year old Robert Jackson was taken into custody by Hopkinsville police at a home on Camilla Drive around 6:30 Sunday night. The indictment warrant was signed by Christian County Circuit Judge John Atkins on Friday charging Jackson with two counts of reckless homicide and two counts of first-degree wanton endangerment.
The charges are in connection to a two-vehicle wreck that occurred in 2019 two days before Christmas on Kentucky 91. Christian County Sheriff’s deputies reported on December 23, Jackson crossed the center line at the bridge about a mile north of Sinking Fork Baptist Church and hit a truck driven by 32-year old Misty Quarles, of Cerulean.
Deputies said the impact caused the truck to come to rest in a creek bed. Three people were extricated from the vehicle and 34-year old Marcus Quarles and a juvenile were taken to Jennie Stuart Medical Center. Jackson, Misty Quarles, and a second juvenile, 11-year old Alexia Trump, were flown to Nashville hospitals. Misty Quarles and her daughter, Alexia, a sixth-grader at Sinking Fork Elementary School, died from their injuries while in the hospital.
Following his arrest Sunday night, Jackson was booked into the Christian County Jail.
