{"id":1771106,"date":"2022-12-10T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771106"},"modified":"2022-12-10T09:19:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T14:19:01","slug":"details-emerge-about-why-fedex-driver-allegedly-murdered-7-year-old-girl-after-delivering-her-christmas-gift-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/details-emerge-about-why-fedex-driver-allegedly-murdered-7-year-old-girl-after-delivering-her-christmas-gift-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Details Emerge About Why FedEx Driver Allegedly Murdered 7-Year-Old Girl After Delivering Her Christmas Gift: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdetails-emerge-about-why-fedex-driver-allegedly-murdered-7-year-old-girl-after-delivering-her-christmas-gift-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771106&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Horrifying details have emerged in the tragic case of a 7-year-old Texas girl who was allegedly murdered by a FedEx driver last week.<\/p>\n<p>Tanner Horner, 31, allegedly admitted to law enforcement officials that he hit Athena Strand with the delivery truck immediately after he dropped off her Christmas gift, a set of Barbie dolls called the \u201cyou can be anything\u201d collection, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/08\/athena-strands-alleged-fedex-killer-was-delivering-christmas-gift\/\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials recovered video footage from inside the truck that showed him taking the girl into the van.<\/p>\n<p>When investigators located Horner, he admitted to them that \u201che had taken Athena\u201d and that she was dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Horner] stated when he was backing up in his Fed Ex truck he accidentally hit Athena with the truck, but she was not seriously injured, panicked and put her in the van,\u201d court documents <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23403808\/613189860-horner-arrest-warrant-dc-735.pdf\">said<\/a>. \u201c[Horner] stated Athena was alive at that time, talking to him, and told him her name was Athena. [Horner] stated he attempted to break Athena\u2019s neck to kill her. [Horner] stated, when he attempted to break Athena\u2019s neck it did not work so he strangled with his bare hands in the back of the Fed Ex van.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Athena\u2019s mother, Maitlyn Gandy, said at a press conference, \u201cAthena was robbed of the opportunity to grow up to be anything she wanted to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this present ordered out of innocence and love is one she will never receive,\u201d she said. \u201cAthena\u2019s favorite holiday was Christmas as it is for many children everywhere. The joy Athena gave her family, and the joy she felt on Christmas is something we will never feel with here again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For those who don&#8217;t know\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AthenaStrand?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AthenaStrand<\/a> was laid to rest today. <\/p>\n<p>These are pictures of her casket shared with me by her mother Maitlyn Gandy. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wfaa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wfaa<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RkdERA3dEY\">pic.twitter.com\/RkdERA3dEY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Howerton (@HowertonNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HowertonNews\/status\/1601313745321754624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin said that his office is pursuing the death penalty for Horner because \u201cof the serious nature of the case\u201d and Athena\u2019s age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere may be some hurdles we may or may not be able to cross \u2013 I\u2019ll leave that to the district attorney,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/athena-strand-wise-county-sheriff-to-seek-death-penalty-for-tanner-horner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Horner\u2019s social media accounts were reportedly filled with photos of him holding a baby, <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/tanner-lynn-horner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to Heavy.com, a fact-finding website.<\/p>\n<p>On Facebook, he allegedly wrote, \u201clove is stupid and not to mention completely asinine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was previously accused of being \u201ca rapist,\u201d the site said, according to a woman who claims that she spoke with investigators.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fedex-driver-charged-with-murder-after-body-of-missing-texas-girl-7-found\">FedEx Driver Charged With Murder After Body Of Missing Texas Girl, 7, Found<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horrifying details have emerged in the tragic case of a 7-year-old Texas girl who was allegedly murdered by a FedEx driver last week. Tanner Horner, 31, allegedly admitted to law enforcement officials that he hit Athena Strand with the delivery truck immediately after he dropped off her Christmas gift, a set of Barbie dolls called &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1890693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6860,4845,6922,6202,7549,4954,6857,7548,6858,6923,4665,7202,3819,6195],"class_list":["post-1771106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-7-year-old","tag-allegedly","tag-christmas","tag-daily","tag-delivering","tag-details","tag-driver","tag-emerge","tag-fedex","tag-gift","tag-girl","tag-murdered","tag-report","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}