An Alabama man was arrested on manslaughter charges July 12 after a wrong-way car crash that killed four Little Rock residents on July 11, authorities said.
Cpl. Mark A. Stone of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency's Highway Patrol Division said Wednesday that 25-year-old Michael Troy Majors of Bessemer, Ala., was in the Walker County jail in Jasper, Ala.
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Just before 2 a.m. July 11, Monica Daniele Jackson, 49, Tamblyn J. Jackson, 50, Kheri Thomas Ayers, 29, and Daniel Izell Johnson, 42, were killed after Majors' Dodge Ram pickup struck their Nissan Altima on Interstate 22 about 1 mile south of Jasper.
Majors was traveling west in the eastbound lanes of the interstate at the time of the crash and collided head-on with the Arkansans, Stone said.
Majors was injured and transported to Walker Baptist Medical Center in Jasper, Stone said. He was arrested on four counts of manslaughter July 12 on his release from the hospital.
Metro on 07/21/2019