Report: Jury Finds Man Guilty in Hit-and-Run Death of USC Professor

A 48-year-old man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Wednesday after a Lexington County jury found him guilty in the 2010 fatal hit-and-run death of a University of South Carolina professor, according to a report from The State. 

William Craig Caughman was driving the pickup truck that, in February 2010, hit Toby Morriss, an adjunct professor of photography at USC who was driving his motorcycle on Knox Abbott Drive, according to The State. Morriss was taken to the hospital where he died seven days later from complications from the wreck.

Caughman left the scene of the wreck, according to The State, and later cut the doors off his pickup truck and tried to hide the truck under a tarp in his backyard. 

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