OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A Nebraska man who plowed his dump truck into the back of a stopped minivan will be sentenced in January in the deaths of two youths.
A Sarpy County jury found Jesse O. Knight of Papillion, Nebraska, guilty on Friday of two counts of motor vehicle homicide, the Omaha World-Herald reported. The crash killed 10-year-old Stephen Young and his 16-year-old sister, Abby Young.
Knight was also found guilty of misdemeanor reckless driving and pleaded guilty to operating a commercial vehicle without a commercial driving license.
Kristy Young and her four children were in a 2016 Toyota minivan that was stopped at a red light in August 2019 when it was hit from behind.
Stephen, who was about to enter the fifth grade at Millard's Reagan Elementary School, was pronounced dead at the scene. Abby, who would have been a junior at Millard West High School, died at a hospital.