Two counts of second-degree murder charged in fatal hit-and-run

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The Douglas County District Attorney has filed charges in a hit-and-run accident that left two construction workers dead.

Two counts of reckless second-degree murder were filed Tuesday in Douglas County against Ramona Morgan in the Sept. 11 deaths of two highway workers.

Morgan, 48, also was charged with one count of reckless aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in the injury of a third highway worker.

District Attorney Charles Branson announced the charges this afternoon in a news release. He said the information was not statutorily allowed for release until Morgan was served with a warrant earlier today.

The charges stem from an incident on U.S. Highway 59 at Pleasant Grove when a pickup truck drove through a one-lane restricted work zone and struck and killed Rolland G. Griffith, 24, of El Dorado, and Tyrone T. Korte, 30, of Seneca. Injured in the incident was Curtis Delzell, also of El Dorado.

Morgan and her daughter, Sabrina Morgan, were later arrested in Osage County following a police chase. They were found in a truck matching the description of a truck that hit the men.

Sabrina Morgan will not be charged in Douglas County, Branson said in the announcement.

Sabrina Morgan has a preliminary hearing Wednesday afternoon in Osage County on a charge related to the chase.

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