Iowa man charged in hit-and-run that killed Obion Co. native

OBION COUNTY, Tenn. — After nearly six months of investigation, a local family gets answers in the hit-and-run death of their loved one after he moved to Iowa.

Twenty-two-year-old Daulton Holly from Troy was working in Des Moines when police say he was killed last August in a fatal hit-and-run.

“It was on Sunday morning when a policeman knocked on my door and told me there had been an accident,” Joyce Holly, Daulton’s grandmother, said.

The West Des Moines Police Department said Holly was found dead around 2 a.m. on Aug. 23.

Authorities said Ronald Paul Hauser turned himself in on Tuesday and was charged in connection with Holly’s death.

“For us, you know, this is all about the victim’s family,” Sgt. Jason Bryan with the Des Moines Police Department said. “The victim unfortunately is no longer with us, and so it was up to us to speak for the victim and find out what happened, find the person responsible for what happened.”

Joyce said she was amazed at how her grandson touched the world around him.

“He was loved by a lot lot of people,” she said. “There was lots of people that at the funeral home talked about things that maybe he had said or done that changed their life or helped them out.”

She said her family is working daily to forgive the person responsible.

“It’s what we need to do. It’s what we are supposed to do, and it won’t be easy but that will be something we need to do,” she said.

Hauser was processed and released on bond Tuesday night.

Police said they connected him to the hit-and-run from evidence found at the scene and by talking to witnesses.