Driver in Fatal MS Student Hit-and-Run Gets Suspended Sentence

Man convicted in 2022 DUI hit-and-run that killed local Ole Miss student released from jail

OXFORD, Miss. (WLBT) – A judge has suspended the 10-year prison sentence passed down to the man who pleaded guilty to the 2022 DUI hit-and-run of two Ole Miss students, which killed a local man. Our sister station, WMC, reported that Seth Garron Rokitka‘s attorney, State Representative Kevin Horan (R-34), asked for a review of his sentence, citing his “good behavior.” Rokikta has been out of the Lafayette County jail since April 2, according to…

Driver in fatal MS student hit-and-run gets suspended sentence

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Collierville man’s 10-year sentence in prison was suspended in the downtown Oxford hit-and-run accident that killed a University of Mississippi student. In August 202…

Court grants time-served release in hit-and-run case

A Lafayette County Circuit Court judge has amended the sentence of the man convicted of killing Ole Miss student Walker Fielder and critically injuring another student in a hit-and-run in 2022, and ordered his release after determining he had demonstrated rehabilitation while incarcerated. According to an amended sentencing order filed April 8, 2026, Seth Garron Rokitka originally pleaded guilty in August 2025 to aggravated DUI and leaving the s…

Man convicted in 2022 DUI hit-and-run that killed Ole Miss student freed early

A judge has suspended the 10-year prison sentence passed down to the man who pleaded guilty to the 2022 DUI hit-and-run of two Ole Miss students, which killed one.