SCOTT DEPOT, W.Va. — A Putnam County will spend the next 40 years in prison for second-degree murder.
Morgan Creed Vandergriff was sentenced Thursday in Putnam County Circuit Court for hitting and killing John Maynard with his car in May 2018 on Ranch Lake Boulevard in Scott Depot.
40 years was the maximum sentence as the judge doing the sentencing said Vandergriff never showed a sign of remorse after the incident or during the trial.
During the trial, witnesses said they saw Vandergriff speed past a school bus in the Scott Depot neighborhood while Maynard was at the end of his driveway telling him to slow down. That’s when Vandergriff went off-road and hit Maynard.
Vandergriff was found guilty on August 16, during the fourth day of the jury trial.