CURRITUCK COUNTY, N.C. — Author's note: The video above is on file from February 28, 2020.
Charges against an Outer Banks motorist now include second-degree murder after an 11-year-old girl struck by a vehicle on a North Carolina road last month died.
Daniel Deweese of Kitty Hawk already had been arrested after authorities said his vehicle hit Julie Hope Randel as she crossed a highway near her middle school.
She died on Wednesday at a Virginia hospital.
District Attorney Andrew Womble says Deweese is now charged with felony death by vehicle as well as second-degree murder.
Deweese was in the Currituck County jail on Sunday.
A state trooper says the Highway Patrol believes alcohol played a role in the collision.