Background: David Hall appears in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026 (WITI). Inset: Carla Tyson (Facebook/WDJT).
A Wisconsin man will spend more than a decade behind bars for the hit-and-run death of a pedestrian he ran over with his pickup truck, leaving the woman — who had cerebral palsy — in the road, where she was struck again by a police car less than a minute later.
It took jurors less than an hour Thursday to convict David Hall, 49, of hit-and-run resulting in death and felony bail jumping, according to a report by Milwaukee Fox affiliate WITI. The fatal crash occurred on July 27, 2024, at the intersection of West North Avenue and North 14th Street. Surveillance video showed Hall's truck hitting Carla Tyson as he traveled eastbound on North Avenue; the impact was so intense that Tyson's spinal cord was severed, and Hall's passenger-side headlight was knocked out, WITI reported.
The truck briefly slowed before speeding away, the video showed. Police later found Hall's truck at a residence associated with him, and he allegedly told them he didn't realize he had struck a person.
About 30 seconds later, a Milwaukee Police squad car responding to an unrelated emergency call struck Tyson again as she lay in the roadway. The officers in that car pulled over immediately, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Hall testified in his own defense at trial, according to local CBS affiliate WDJT.
"To hit someone, and not know that I hit someone, it hurts every day because I try to ask myself, 'you should have just got out,'" he said, according to the station.
At sentencing, the victim's brother told Hall that he held him directly responsible for his sister's death.
"I'm hoping that you take the time to reflect on the part you played in this," Pierre Tyson said. "Your actions are what set this chain of events in motion."
"My sister was born with cerebral palsy," he told WITI. "She's been able to overcome so many things in life."
Judge Laura Crivello sentenced Hall to 13 years in prison. She said that his history of drug trafficking and time in prison haven't stopped him from committing crimes, and noted that he showed no remorse except at sentencing.
"You took the stand to lie and to try and get out from under this. That's what you did," Crivello said, according to WITI. "You should be held accountable for the life that you've taken."
Tyson's son, Jason Lucious, has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit over his mother's death against Hall, the Milwaukee Police Department and the squad car driver, according to the Journal Sentinel. The lawsuit says Tyson's death was "wrongful and preventable," and that the squad car driver "[failed] to activate his emergency lights or siren before proceeding through the area where a hazard was, or should have been reasonably discoverable."
Court records show that the civil case against Hall and the police has a scheduling conference set for Nov. 18. According to WITI, Hall was out on bond at the time of the fatal crash; that drug and gun case is set to go to trial in December.
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