LAS VEGAS (KLAS) - The man accused of hitting and killing a Las Vegas-area high school student has been formally charged.

Keenan Jackson, 37, was indicted on Tuesday by a Clark County Grand Jury on felony charges for DUI and reckless driving resulting in death.

He is accused of driving impaired and hitting and killing McKenzie Scott on Friday, May 2, as she was crossing Buffalo Drive in a school zone at Arbor View High School, according to Las Vegas Metropolitan police.

He was more than three times the legal limit, according to a preliminary test taken after the fatal crash.

Scott was expected to graduate from Arbor View High School last month.

The sentence for a DUI causing death conviction is a minimum of two years and a maximum of 20 years.

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