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Boy dies after hit by falling tombstone in Utah (AP via mysanantonio.com)
more at link above[PARK CITY] A 4-year-old boy is dead and police are investigating after a large tombstone fell and hit the boy while he and his family were visiting a historic cemetery in a Utah ski resort town.
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The boy was identified as Carson Dean Cheney of Lehi. "This tragic accident has taken the life of our energetic, sweet, beloved little boy," his grandmother, Geri Gibbs, said in a statement.
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[Police Capt. Phil] Kirk said an investigator was at the cemetery Friday morning looking into how and why the 6-foot-tall headstone fell.
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Bruce Erickson, president of the Glenwood Cemetery Association, said [....] officials aren't sure whether the family that placed the historic tombstone still exists.
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