MSU employee found not guilty of causing death of student on moped in January crash

EAST LANSING — A Michigan State employee salting campus roads was found not guilty of causing the death of a student on a moped in January. 

A jury found Adam Young, 23, of Laingsburg, not guilty of a misdemeanor moving violation causing death on Tuesday. 

Tiana Seville, 21, was killed just before 8 a.m. Jan. 15 when she and the salt truck Young was driving collided near the intersection of Shaw Lane and Chestnut Road on MSU's campus. 

Young is a staff member at MSU and works with Infrastructure Planning and Facilities as a landscape services equipment operator. Young was suspended from his position pending the outcome of the investigation.

Seville was a 2016 graduate of Grand Ledge High School, and was on the gymnastics team at Grand Ledge for three years. She also was a cheerleader at Grand Valley State University, where she attended her first year of college. 

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