New warrants in hit-and-run crash that killed 24-year-old mother

The North Carolina State Highway Patrol said the front passenger in the Jeep, 24-year-old Kortney Atkins, of Goldsboro, died while being transported to WakeMed.
Posted 12/17/2024, 3:39:00 AM Updated 12/17/2024, 2:36:41 PM

CARY AND SEE WHY THAT RIGHT.

>> NEW WARRANTS ARE SHEDDING

LIGHT ON WHAT POLICE ARE

LOOKING FOR AND WHO THEY'RE

TALKING TO AFTER A DEADLY

WRONG-WAY CRASH IN JOHNSTON

COUNTY. IT HAPPENED EARLY

SUNDAY MORNING ON US 70 OUTSIDE

CLAYTON. WHEN A BMW GOING THE

WRONG-WAY SLAMMED INTO A JEEP

WITH THE FAMILY INSIDE. ONE

WOMAN WAS KILLED. 3 OTHERS,

INCLUDING A CHILD, WERE

INJURED. THE BUREAU'S ERIC

MILLER HAS THE STORY.

TONIGHT. NEW WARRANT OBTAINED

BY WRAL SHED NEW LIGHTS ON

THESE FATAL CRASH.

>> THE WARRANTS REVEALING

INVESTIGATORS HAVE NOW

INTERVIEWED THE OWNER OF THIS

BMW AND SEVERAL OTHERS

POTENTIALLY TIED TO THE

VEHICLE. BUT SO FAR, NONE ARE

IDENTIFIED AS BEING THE PERSON

BEHIND THE WHEEL. THE NIGHT OF

THE CRASH, ACCORDING TO THE

WARRANTS. INVESTIGATORS ALSO

SEARCHED THIS RALLY TOWNHOME

TRYING TO FIND A JACKET, HAD

CELL PHONE IN ANY CLOTHING THAT

SOILED WITH BLOOD. THE WARRANTS

ALSO SAYING WITNESSES SPOTTED

THE DRIVER OF THE BMW ACTING

ERRATIC AND ATTEMPTING TO ENTER

THE VEHICLE ON FIRE. SEVERAL

TIMES BEFORE WALKING AWAY.

THE CRASH INJURED 3 PEOPLE AND

KILLED. 24 YEAR-OLD COURTING

AT ITS ACCORDING TO HER

MOTHER-IN-LAW AND CAN SCREW

UP IN POWELL, TENNESSEE,

MARRIED HER HIGH SCHOOL

SWEETHEART. MICHAEL AND MOVED

TO GOLDSBORO WHEN HE JOINED

THE AIR FORCE AND HAD A CHILD

AND MY GRANDSON CLEARS AGAIN 8

YEARS AGO. HAVE MY WHOLE FOR

SAID THAT THEY NEED CITY

BUILDING

>> INSIDE. THE LOVING SAYS ALL

4 WERE ON THEIR WAY BACK FROM

THE CHARLOTTE MOTOR SPEEDWAY

EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. THE TRIP

TO SEE THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS.

THINGS FOR MY GRANDSON. SO

INSTEAD OF HAPPY MEMORIES, THE

TRIP CREATED TRAGEDY. IT HIT

MY DAUGHTER AND ALL AND I SAY

SHOW ME AWAY FROM HIM.

AND IT'S NOT RIGHT. SHE HAS