FedEx Driver's Predatory Past Unveiled

0:00It's April 8th, Dallas News. Today starts now, AI-powered and ready. Tanner Horner, the ex-fed ex-driver, just pleaded guilty to Capitol murder in the strangling death of seven-year-old Athena Strand back in November, 2022. Now, court docs reveal he faced accusations of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl years earlier when he was 22. That woman told detectives, Horner attacked her twice once in the summer of 2013 and, again, in December 2014, after a night of heavy drinking at a house party. She said he knew her age, held her down while she was too drunk to fight back, and even set messages brushing off age differences. Screenshots from their chats show Horner downplaying the gap, and in 2018, he tried forcing a kiss at a bar, telling her she was more fun, back when she was younger. These details paint a pattern of predatory behavior long before the tragedy with Athena. Prosecutors and tearing counting decided not to pursue

1:00those older assault charges right now, since Horner is in the middle of this death penalty trial. The jury's shift from Wise County will soon pick between death or life without parole. As this case wraps its punishment phase, it underscores how past red flags can hide in plain sight until something horrific forces them into the light. Stay tuned for the verdict.