Boat owner, driver in deadly crash on Harris Lake now charged with murder
NOTIFICATIONS SO YOU'LL RECEIVE
IMPORTANT WEATHER ALERTS RIGHT
ON YOUR HOME SCREEN. NEW
TONIGHT. WE'RE DIGGING INTO WHY
2 PEOPLE WERE NOW FACING
SECOND-DEGREE MURDER CHARGES
AFTER A BOATING ACCIDENT ON
HARRIS LAKE QUINTIN, KIGHT IN
ANNE MARIE FLANIGAN WERE BOTH
CHARGED TODAY IN A MOVE THAT
SURPRISED SOME PEOPLE. THE
BUREAU'S AARON MILLER JOINS US
LIVE FROM HARRIS LAKE. AND
ERIK, YOU SPOKE WITH A LAWYER
WHO ISN'T CONNECTED TO THIS
CASE, BUT WHO KNOWS THE LAW?
HE'S CALLING HIS DECISION TO
BRING SECOND-DEGREE MURDER
CHARGE IS UNUSUAL.
GERALD, AND HE OFFERED A NUMBER
OF POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS FOR
WHY THEY MIGHT HAVE DONE THIS.
SOME OF WHICH GO BEYOND JUST
WHAT HAPPENED HERE AT HARRIS
LAKE THAT TERRIBLE AFTERNOON.
LIKE PRIOR CRIMINAL HISTORY
>> THE NEW CHARGES DROPPED JUST
AFTER 03:00PM MONDAY. THE GRAND
JURY INDICTING BOTH QUITTING
KITE AND AND MARIE FLANIGAN
FOR MURDER IN THE
SECOND-DEGREE.
>> NORMALLY IN SOMETHING LIKE
THIS, IT WOULD EITHER BE A
FELONY DEATH FOR SOMETHING LIKE
THAT FOR IT TO BE SECOND DEGREE
MURDER. THE DA HAS SEEN
SOMETHING THAT HE THINKS RISES
ABOVE THE TYPICAL ACCIDENT,
EVEN IMPAIRED DRIVING ACCIDENT.
>> NEW TONIGHT THROUGH OF
DEFENSE ATTORNEY DANIEL MEYER
WHO ISN'T INVOLVED IN THE CASE
SAYS SECOND-DEGREE MURDER
CHARGES REQUIRE PROSECUTORS
TO PROVE KITE IN FLANAGAN ACTED
WITH MALICE.
>> TYPICALLY IN A CASE THAT
INVOLVES AN IMPAIRED DRIVING IS
A PRIOR HISTORY OF IMPAIRED
OPERATION EXTREME RECKLESSNESS.
YOU KNOW WHERE THEY GOING WAY
TOO FAST FOR THE CONDITIONS
WHERE THEY DRIVING THROUGH A
SWIM AREA.
>> THE CRASH HAPPENED ON AUGUST
SECOND, 10 YEAR OLD BROOKLYN
CARROLL WAS KILLED. ANOTHER
WOMAN JENNIFER STALEY WAS
SERIOUSLY INJURED EVEN BEFORE
THE CRASH DID HAVE PENDING
CHARGES AT OF MOORE COUNTY FOR
FELONY HIT AND RUN IN A BOAT
CRASH. HE WAS ALSO CHARGED FOR
DW ON HIM FOR KILLING SOMEONE
WHILE OPERATING A BOAT UNDER
THE INFLUENCE. FLANAGAN HE'S
FACING SIMILAR CHARGES FOR
ALLOWING KITE TO OPERATE OR
BOAT MONDAY, CARROLL'S PARENTS
WEIGHED IN ON THE NEW MURDER
CHARGES RUNNING IN A STATEMENT
WE EXTEND OUR SINCERE THANKS
TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS
AND THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS
OFFICE WHO'VE BEEN DILIGENTLY
WORKING ON HER CASE.
>> AND TONIGHT, MY OR TELLS US
THAT IF KITE AND FLANAGAN ARE
CONVICTED OF SECOND-DEGREE
MURDER, THEY MIGHT FACE MORE
THAN A DECADE IN PRISON.
A DECADE BEHIND BARS HERE.
WE'VE REACHED OUT TO BOTH KITE
AND FLANAGAN'S ATTORNEYS.
NEITHER WANTED TO RESPOND TO