A Wisconsin man will spend more than a decade behind bars for the hit-and-run death of a pedestrian he ran over with his pickup truck, leaving the woman — who had cerebral palsy — in the road, where she was struck again by a police car less than a minute later.
It took jurors less than an hour Thursday to convict David Hall, 49, of hit-and-run resulting in death and felony bail jumping, according to a report by Milwaukee Fox affiliate WITI. The fatal crash occurred on July 27, 2024, at the intersection of West North Avenue and North 14th Street. Surveillance video showed Hall’s truck hitting Carla Tyson as he traveled eastbound on North Avenue; the impact was so intense that Tyson’s spinal cord was severed, and Hall’s passenger-side headlight was knocked out, WITI reported.
The truck briefly slowed before speeding away, the video showed. Police later found Hall’s truck at a residence associated with him, and he allegedly told them he didn’t realize he had struck a person…