The FedEx driver who has been accused of murdering a seven-year-old girl claimed he had reversed his van into her but she was still alive when he put her in his van.
Tanner Lynn Horner, 31, has been charged with murder and aggravated kidnapping after the death of Athena Strand in the town of Paradise, Texas, US.
According to the arrest affidavit released Thursday, Horner told police he put the girl in his work van after he accidentally backed into her.