Undertaker News: Tombstone kills Leprechaun kid

US boy, 4, killed by falling tombstone

13:00 AEST Mon Jul 9 2012

A four-year-old American boy was helping his father take photographs when a 1.8m tombstone weighing more than 100kg fell and killed him.

Carson Dean Cheney was helping his father Zac as he took photos of another family in an old cemetery in Park City, Utah on Thursday.
The boy's grandmother, Geri Gibbs, said Carson was trying to make the children in the photograph smile by pretending to be a leprechaun.
He went behind the headstone and was poking his head out when metal connecting it to its pedestal broke and it fell on him.
"Carson passed away while trying to make others smile," said a colleague of Mr Cheney's, Curtis Morley.
Ms Gibbs said it took three men to pull the slab off the boy but the injuries to his head, chest and abdomen were severe.
Rescuers "did everything they could" before the boy was rushed to Park City Medical Centre, where he died a short time later.
Ms Gibbs said the family was still in shock.
"There's still so much disbelief and sorrow and anguish," she said.
"We just keep waiting for the door to open up and Carson to come through, a happy little boy."
The headstone, which was at least 100 years old, marked someone who had died in the 1800s.
Source: Associated Press
Author: Ali Best. Approving editor: Henri Paget

 

 Carson Dean Cheney. (AAP)

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