DALLAS — Tanner Horner, a former FedEx driver, is accused of kidnapping and killing 7-year-old North Texas girl Athena Strand.
Horner is charged with capital murder in her death and could face the death penalty if convicted. His trial is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, April 7. KHOU 11’s sister station, WFAA in Dallas, will have gavel-to-gavel coverage, starting on April 7, on our TV streaming app KHOU 11+.
In November 2022, according to court documents, Horner told police he struck Strand with his delivery van while backing up. He allegedly kidnapped her and strangled her out of fear that she would tell her father about the incident, documents said. Horner later led authorities to where he had left her body in Wise County near Boyd, authorities said…