Little Rock,AR : Reality TV star killed Coast Guardsman in DWI wreck on November, Friday 10th 2017
A reality TV star killed a U.S. Coast Guard technician in a drunken wrong-way collision on a Virginia highway, authorities said.
Melissa Hancock, 25, has been charged with driving while intoxicated and maiming after the death of Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Dill, 29, news outlets reported.
Hancock appeared on Lifetime's Little Women: Atlanta, a reality show that focuses on women of short stature.
Dill was a Logan Township, N.J., native who was stationed in Portsmouth as an information systems technician.
Virginia State Police said Hancock struck Dill head-on around 2 a.m. Nov. 4 on Interstate 264. He died of his injuries the next day.
Dill had been on his way to pick up his wife and her friends, who had been celebrating her birthday. Dill, who didn't drink, had offered to drive the group so no one had to worry about driving home after drinking.
Reality TV star killed Coast Guardsman in DWI wreck