Prosecutors called seven witnesses to the stand Tuesday in the first of a three-day trial against a Morrilton man facing a negligent homicide charge following a 2014 fatal crash. Joshua Parks, 29, faces negligent homicide, first-degree battery and reckless driving charges following a crash near the 135 mile marker along Interstate 40 that killed 5-year-old Esther Lazar and severely injured her mother. The crash occurred shortly before midnight on June 27, 2014. During opening statements, deputy prosecutor Cortney Kennedy asked the seven women and five men selected as jurors to hold the 29-year-old "accountable for the pain he's called the Lazar family and [for taking] the life of little 'Esty...
