Bootheel 7-year-old dead after 'horrible accident' involving swing set

Monday, April 20, 2009 ~ Updated 12:14 PM

FISK, Mo. -- A Fisk kindergartner was killed in a what authorities describe as a "horrible accident" Sunday when an unfinished, wooden swing set collapsed on him.

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