AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A boy has died after touching a fence that became electrified at a park in east Georgia.
News outlets report 12-year-old Melquan Robinson was at football practice Monday evening in an Augusta park when he grabbed the chain-link fence that had been electrified by a live wire.
Richmond County Coroner Mark Bowen says Melquan was electrocuted. A county sheriff’s office report says two boys and one adult were also injured.
Sheriff’s deputies say Melquan had climbed the fence to retrieve a football. They say the two other children were shocked when they tried to pull Melquan down.
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Bowen says authorities are investigating and the city will focus on how the wire energized the fence.
County schools Director of Communications Kaden Jacobs says Melquan was a seventh-grader.