Fayetteville widow outraged after hit-and-run suspect posts $25K bond
The widow of Rex Smith Jr. said she is outraged after hit-and-run suspect Cierra Holliday posted a $25,000 secured bond for release from jail. Holliday is charged a fatal hit-and-run. Rex Smith Jr. died in the Jan. 11 incident.
Posted — UpdatedHolliday is also charged with:
- Misdemeanor death by motor vehicle
- Driving with a suspended license
- Operating a vehicle with no insurance
- Failing to decrease speed to avoid a collision
- Expired registration
Holliday was released on a $25,000 secured bond on Jan. 12.
Leah Hamilton-Smith said she is outraged about the release.
"You left the scene of a crime and they give you a bond that low, and it was a secured bond and you posted it,” Hamilton-Smith said. “To me … I would think of it like being a flight risk as well because you left the scene of a crime.
“What makes you think she's even going to stick around?"
Hamilton-Smith said her late husband was a family man. The two were event planners.
“His hands were blessed,” Hamilton-Smith said of her late husband. “He could do anything, build anything, fix anything, and he was just always there.”
Around 12:30 a.m. on Jan. 11, Smith was trying to cross Bragg Boulevard. He was hit by a vehicle driven by Holliday, who left the scene.
Holliday is due back in court on Jan. 25.
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