Man charged with killing child in boating accident appears in court

Quinten Kight faces DWI charges after a 10-year-old girl died from a boating accident at Harris Lake.
Posted 8/4/2025, 5:16:00 PM Updated 8/4/2025, 9:41:39 PM

STORY AND PRESSED FOR THOSE

ANSWERS IN HARNETT COUNTY WILL

BE DANA LEE, WRAL NEWS. I

WILLIE, THANK YOU. DEPUTY SAY

THIS IS THE MAN WHO DROVE A

BOAT IMPAIRED AND CRASHED INTO

A GROUP OF SWIMMERS ON HARRIS

LAKE OVER THE WEEKEND

PROSECUTOR SAYING THAT.

>> QUINTON KAI TRIED TO GET RID

OF AN ALCOHOL ON HIS BOAT RIGHT

AFTER THAT CRASH. A 10 YEAR-OLD

GIRL AND A WOMAN WITH A 10

YEAR-OLD GIRL WE SHOULD SAY

WAS KILLED AND A WOMAN NOW HAS

VERY SERIOUS INJURIES. WRAL'S

CARLY HAYNES IS LIVE OUTSIDE OF

THE CHATHAM COUNTY COURTROOM.

WE'RE A LOT OF NEW EVIDENCE DID

COME OUT TODAY. CARLY.

>> AND WE ALSO KNOW THAT THE

SUSPECT IN THIS CASE, QUENTIN

KITE, IS FACING 2 ADDITIONAL

CHARGES. AND THAT IS FOR

OPERATING A BOAT RECKLESSLY

AND THEN ALSO DRIVING A BOAT

IMPAIRED CAUSING SERIOUS INJURY

INSIDE THE COURTROOM, THE

PROSECUTOR, THE DISTRICT

ATTORNEY REALLY OUTLINED WHAT

INVESTIGATORS SAY HAPPENED

HERE.

>> MR. KYLE, YOU ARE CHARGED

WITH CLINTON. KAI DOESN'T SHOW

EMOTION AS HE HEARS EVIDENCE

AGAINST HIM. THIS MAN IS NOT

SAFE TO THE COMMUNITY RIGHT

NOW. HE'S CHARGED WITH DRIVING

A BOAT INTO A GROUP OF HARRIS

LAKE SWIMMERS. WELL, UNDER THE

INFLUENCE, 10 YEAR-OLD BROOKLYN

CARROLL DIED AND JENNIFER

STALEY WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED

AND LOST HER LEG IF NOT STRUCK

BY THE WHOLE, THOUGH, THAT

THESE MAY BE DAMAGED IN AN

INJURED BY THE PROF OF THIS,

THOUGH THE TRAGEDY REACH THE

WEST LAKE ELEMENTARY COMMUNITY,

CAROL, HAD BEEN A 5TH GRADER

HERE, STALEY A SCHOOL, SOCIAL

WORKER. THIS VIDEO SHOWS THE

FIRST RESPONDERS SATURDAY.

INVESTIGATORS SAY KITE HAD BEEN

LOOKING BACKWARDS

AT A 2 P WAS POURING. AND THEN

AFTER THE INCIDENT, I TRIED TO

GET RID OF ALCOHOL FROM THE

VOTE. THEY FOUND 39 EMPTY BEER

CANS IN MR. COATES, THOUGH,

7 OF WHICH APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN

SHOTGUN. KITE IS BEHIND BARS ON

A HALF A MILLION DOLLAR BOND

WHILE STALEY RECOVERS IN THE

HOSPITAL AND A 10 YEAR OLD'S

FAMILY GRIEVES THE

UNIMAGINABLE.

THIS WAS NO KITES FIRST RUN-IN

WITH THE LAW AS WELL. HE WAS

OUT ON BOND FOR A PENDING 2023

FELONY HIT AND RUN CHARGE OUT

OF MOORE COUNTY.

>> HE WAS ALSO CONVICTED FOR

DWI IN 2010 OUT IN NEW MEXICO.

CARLY HAYNES, WRAL, NEWS LIVE

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