Haddock gets prison for negligent homicide

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     Michael Haddock of Southaven, Mississippi, entered a guilty plea to negligent homicide in connection with the death of a 26-year-old Big Flat resident, Brandy Lynn Honeycutt, in mid-May and was sentenced to five years in prison with five years of probation to follow during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.

     There were a number of differing, contradictory and somewhat confusing accounts given by different parties regarding the accident, and their statements generally tended to raise more questions than they answered. Investigators eventually determined an extremely intoxicated Haddock had been driving the vehicle which had run over the victim causing her to be trapped underneath the car. According to investigators, Haddock said he had been visiting the Honeycutt residence off Highway 14 in Big Flat and two-to-three fifths of whiskey had been consumed. He said he left the residence with Daniel and Brandy Honeycutt, who are husband and wife. He thought that Brandy Honeycutt had gotten into the backseat, but when he backed the car up he realized he had hit something. He told investigators that he got out of the car and saw Brandy Honeycutt under the vehicle.

     The 27-year-old Haddock said he then walked slightly more than a mile to his grandmother’s residence to report the accident. There was no explanation as to why Haddock did not stop at homes between the accident site and his grandmother’s home, or exactly what Honeycutt’s husband was doing during this time. Haddock told investigators that his extreme level of intoxication was to blame for his lack of ability to provide complete and clear details of the incident.

     A call was eventually made to 911, and when first responders arrived, they found Brandy Honeycutt, the mother of three children, had died from her injuries.

     Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery said the Sheriff’s helicopter was launched to take aerial photographs at the scene and that observations from the air suggested Haddock had been operating the vehicle in a reckless manner when the accident happened.




   

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