Farming Accident Claims Life of Noxubee Co. Child

NOXUBEE CO., Miss. – (WCBI) Noxubee County’s close knit Mennonite community is in mourning after a tragic accident Monday afternoon.

According to Noxubee Coroner R.L. Calhoun, 9-year-old Kirby Theodore Decker died this evening after being run over by a truck on the family farm on Fairview Road in Brooksville.

Lowndes County Coroner Greg Merchant says the youngster was sitting on the front of a trailer and fell off. He was run over by the three-quarter ton truck that was backing the trailer. Merchant says family members drove him to the bakery in Brooksville. He was taken by ambulance to Baptist Golden Triangle where he died of chest trauma. Cockrell Funeral Home in Macon is in charge of arrangements.