FedEx driver sentenced to death for 2022 kidnapping, murder of 7-year-old Texas girl

A Texas jury on Tuesday sentenced a former FedEx delivery driver, Tanner Horner, to death for the kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Athena Strand, whose body was found in a river days after she vanished from her father's rural home in late 2022.

FedEx driver sentenced to death for 2022 kidnapping, murder of 7-year-old Texas girl

TL;DR

  • Tanner Horner, a former FedEx driver, was sentenced to death.
  • He was convicted of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Athena Strand.
  • Strand's body was found in a river after she vanished in late 2022.
  • The crime occurred at her father's rural home in Texas.