RALEIGH, N.C. (WGHP) — Michael Ray Vernon, the man accused of driving a dump truck that ran a stop sign, hitting and killing four Duke Energy workers in an April 2025 crash, has died, the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.
Vernon died Sunday at the Raleigh Central Prison Hospital, where he was under a safekeeping order and was receiving treatment. A cause of death is not known at this time.
On April 24, 2025, contractors for Duke Energy were working on powerlines in the area of Church and Carroll Streets in Eden when a city dump truck failed to stop at the intersection, hitting six men…