DALLAS — A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Texas truck driver to life in prison for the 2024 kidnapping and murder of a 25-year-old Army veteran, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced.
Naasson Hazzard, 28, of Austin, was convicted by a jury in January of kidnapping resulting in death, a federal offense that carries a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay handed down the sentence in a Dallas courtroom.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Hazzard’s victim, a 25-year-old woman, was seen on surveillance video entering his semi-truck in Dallas at 9:27 p.m. on August 15, 2024. Eight days later, her body was discovered in a wooded area off Texas Highway 11 in Pittsburg with a black plastic bag tied around her head…