McKayla Roberts, 27, female, died on January 2, 2022, after a violent hit-and-run along Interstate 20 near Irondale, Alabama. Public reporting identified her as being from Charleston, South Carolina, and said she was on foot in the westbound travel lanes between the Grants Mill Road and Old Leeds Road exits when she was struck that Sunday evening. The impact was fatal, and the vehicle that hit her did not stop.
In the first accounts that emerged after her death, the scene was described as sudden and stark, a stretch of interstate turned into the last place her family would ever expect to hear her name.
As investigators worked backward through the wreckage of those first hours, authorities said the driver had fled and appealed to the public for help. Later reporting indicated that investigators believed the vehicle involved was a Dodge Journey, a detail that gave the case a little more shape but still left the most important question unanswered: who was behind the wheel. The case carried the grim hallmarks of so many roadside deaths that become something larger than traffic investigations, because this was not simply a collision followed by confusion. By law enforcement’s account, the driver left a dying woman on the interstate and disappeared into the night.
The available online reporting does not show that any arrest was announced in connection with McKayla Roberts’ death. No suspect appears to have been publicly identified by name in the sources located, and no publicly reported charge, prosecution, trial, or conviction was found tied to her case. What remains in the record is the image of an unresolved hit-and-run: a 27-year-old woman killed on I-20, a vehicle authorities believed they could at least partly describe, and a case that, based on the public information available, appears to have remained open without a named offender.
