07-07-2012, 10:41 AM
how freaky awful sad! 
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moments before his death ^
PARK CITY, Utah – A 4-year-old Lehi boy died after a headstone fell on him Thursday evening.
Police say Carson Dean Cheney was at Glenwood Cemetery, located at 402 Silver King Drive, Thursday evening taking photos with his family when a large headstone somehow fell on him, causing fatal injuries.
“We’re unaware of why exactly the stone separated,” said Wade Carpenter, Park City Police Dept. “It sounds like he was standing behind or playing behind the stone when it came, when it fell backwards. The headstone separated from the footing, falling backwards and landing on the young boy.”
The boy’s family pulled the headstone off Carson and he was transported to Park City Medical Center where he later died.
Carson Dean Cheney was holding onto the headstone Thursday when some metal connecting it to the pedestal broke, said Park City police Capt. Phil Kirk. Some of the children being photographed were not being responsive, so Carson tried to help the photographer -- his father -- by pretending to be leprechaun and making them laugh, said Curtis Morley, a family friend.
Morley said the boy went behind a tombstone and was playfully poking his head out from behind it when it fell on him.
"Carson passed away while trying to make others smile," Morley said.
Carson was just about to enter kindergarten, loved to ride his bike and was "full of life," said his grandmother, Geri Gibbs.
Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter said the coarse stone at the Glenwood Cemetery in Park City, about 4 inches thick, marked the grave of someone who died in the 1800s.
moments before his death ^
PARK CITY, Utah – A 4-year-old Lehi boy died after a headstone fell on him Thursday evening.
Police say Carson Dean Cheney was at Glenwood Cemetery, located at 402 Silver King Drive, Thursday evening taking photos with his family when a large headstone somehow fell on him, causing fatal injuries.
“We’re unaware of why exactly the stone separated,” said Wade Carpenter, Park City Police Dept. “It sounds like he was standing behind or playing behind the stone when it came, when it fell backwards. The headstone separated from the footing, falling backwards and landing on the young boy.”
The boy’s family pulled the headstone off Carson and he was transported to Park City Medical Center where he later died.
Carson Dean Cheney was holding onto the headstone Thursday when some metal connecting it to the pedestal broke, said Park City police Capt. Phil Kirk. Some of the children being photographed were not being responsive, so Carson tried to help the photographer -- his father -- by pretending to be leprechaun and making them laugh, said Curtis Morley, a family friend.
Morley said the boy went behind a tombstone and was playfully poking his head out from behind it when it fell on him.
"Carson passed away while trying to make others smile," Morley said.
Carson was just about to enter kindergarten, loved to ride his bike and was "full of life," said his grandmother, Geri Gibbs.
Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter said the coarse stone at the Glenwood Cemetery in Park City, about 4 inches thick, marked the grave of someone who died in the 1800s.