MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A man charged in a 2025 hit-and-run that killed an 18-year-old Mormon missionary has been sentenced after entering a guilty plea, according to Mecklenburg County court records.
Tyzhaun Carney pleaded guilty to multiple charges tied to the May 1, 2025, crash on Beatties Ford Road, including involuntary manslaughter, two felony hit-and-run counts involving serious injury or death, misdemeanor child abuse, and driving while license revoked.
Court records show Carney was sentenced to an active prison term of 31 to 47 months.
Traveling 72 mph in a 35 mph zone
Investigators said the crash happened in the 1400 block of Beatties Ford Road when a 2022 Polestar traveling at a high rate of speed lost control, left the road, and struck bicyclists on the sidewalk. Officers arriving at the scene found one victim dead and another seriously injured…