NewsJune 17, 1995
SIKESTON MAN KILLED BY FALLING TREE LIMB
SIKESTON -- A 27-year-old Sikeston man clearing storm damage from a tree died Thursday night in what Scott County Coroner Scott Amick termed a freak accident. Timothy Ray Haddock was trying to pull a damaged limb from a tree at his home Thursday evening when the limb fell toward him and a branch stuck in his neck, cutting a major artery, the coroner said...
SIKESTON -- A 27-year-old Sikeston man clearing storm damage from a tree died Thursday night in what Scott County Coroner Scott Amick termed a freak accident.
Timothy Ray Haddock was trying to pull a damaged limb from a tree at his home Thursday evening when the limb fell toward him and a branch stuck in his neck, cutting a major artery, the coroner said.
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"He was bleeding internally and externally," Amick said.
Medical help was summoned immediately, but Haddock was pronounced dead at Delta Medical Center in Sikeston at 8:30 p.m.
A lifelong resident of Scott County, he was employed by Dutch Enterprises in Jackson and was engaged to be married.
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