The Christian County Grand Jury handed down a modified indictment Friday against a Crittenden County man charged in a 2019 fatal traffic wreck that claimed the lives of a Cerulean woman and her 11-year-old daughter.
37-year-old Robert Jackson of Marion was initially indicted on two counts of reckless homicide and two counts of wanton endangerment stemming from a two-vehicle wreck that occurred in 2019 two days before Christmas on Princeton Road.
The first superseding indictment removed one of the two reckless homicide charges and added a first-degree wanton endangerment charge for a total of three counts. The superseding indictment handed down Friday includes all of the initial indictment charges and includes three additional misdemeanor and violation charges including speeding 16 mph or over, failure of non-owner to maintain insurance, and possession of marijuana.
The Christian County Sheriff’s deputies said Jackson crossed the center line about a mile north of Sinking Fork Baptist Church and hit a truck driven by 32-year-old Misty Quarles of Cerulean. Her daughter, 11-year-old Alexia Trump, a sixth-grader at Sinking Fork Elementary School, died from her injuries within a day of the crash. Quarles succumbed to her injuries and died the following May after a lengthy hospital stay. Two other people in Quarles’s vehicle were injured in the crash.
Jackson is scheduled to be back in Christian Circuit Court for a pretrial conference on August 17th.