SGT. NICHOLS RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL AFTER STRUCK BY CAR NEW YEARS DAY

(01/23/2013)
A WV state trooper critically injured after being hit by a car on New Year's Eve is out of the hospital Tuesday and recovering at home.

Sergeant Aaron Nichols, a former detachment commander in Wirt County, was struck by a woman driver at a shopping mall after allegedly shoplifting to support her drug addiction.

Nichols reportedly suffered a traumatic head injury.

Jennifer Garretson has been incarcerated since she turned herself into authorities.

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