MONCURE, N.C. — Court documents reveal that the man charged in the death of a 10-year-old girl in North Carolina has a history of legal troubles.
Quinten Kight is facing charges for the death of a 10-year-old girl and the severe injury of a woman, allegedly due to boating under the influence on Saturday. Records reveal his previous arrests in New Mexico in 2009, along with pending charges from a December 2023 hit-and-run incident that injured Alex Myers, a resident of Vass, North Carolina.
Kight, 40, has been charged with DWI.
On Monday, Myers spoke with ABC Raleigh-Durham affiliate WTVD about learning of Saturday’s tragedy while his case is still being processed.
“If they would have been able to do something and maybe I don’t know, penalize this guy in some way, you know, maybe that little girl would still be alive,” Myers expressed.
Just hours after Kight’s initial court appearance on charges related to the girl’s death and the critical injury of Jennifer Stehle, a social worker at West Lake Elementary School in Cary, North Carolina, Myers spoke with WTVD. Stehle, who remains hospitalized in serious condition, lost her leg in the incident.
Myers said one of his friends deployed overseas sent him a text with the story link of what happened at Harris Lake.
“I opened it up, and it was just mind blowing to me that that guy is just living out there completely careless,” Myers said.
According to court documents, Kight was out on a $15,000 secured bond for a felony hit-and-run charge from December 8, 2023, at the time of the tragic boating accident.
Myers recounted that Kight, driving his pickup truck, crossed the center line of Route 690, struck his motorcycle, and fled the scene. EMS found Myers injured on the roadside. Myers suggested that if he hadn’t swerved at the last second, the collision would likely have been fatal for him.
“If I hadn’t have done that, I would have hit him straight in the center of that truck, and I wouldn’t be here standing and talking to you today,” he noted.
Myers shared pictures with WTVD showing the damage to his bike and what he called the “corresponding damage” to Kight’s truck. This aligns with security camera footage from shortly after the collision, which shows Kight’s damaged truck entering a gated community near the crash site. Myers said he gave the video and pictures to investigators, but it’s been slow getting answers through the court system.
Officially, the case is still pending.
“I feel like Moore County should have stepped up and actually prosecuted this guy and maybe gave him some punishment,” Myers said. “Maybe he would have woke up. You know, I mean, some people take longer than others to learn things. But that’s it’s really sad that a 10-year-old girl had to die because … carelessness.”
WTVD also obtained court records from New Mexico showing that Kight was charged with DUI in 2009. Those documents say that Kight pleaded no contest, paid a fine and received an interlock device and completed court-ordered DWI school. He was released from probation after completing the court’s requirements.
WTVD reached out to Kight’s lawyer for the Moore County hit-and-run charges and to the Moore County District Attorney’s office, but has not heard back.
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