| 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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