3 year old dies in freak yard accident

A three-year old child died on Sunday after a barbeque grill fell on top of him. According to the boy’s mother, thirty-one year old Sophia Gladden, she and her son Kevin Garnett, had been watching television shortly before he ran into the yard to play. But that was the last time the high school teacher saw her son alive.

Sophia Gladden, Mother
“As quick as he run out yah and run pass, I hear them scream and I holla dah what? And I run outside and I ask my nephew, “Jaleel dah what?” and he seh, “I sorry Soph.” And when I come out yah, I see the grill down and I see Kevin lay out and the blood. First dah like bubbles and after that the blood just start to pour out ih mouth, ih nose, ih ears. We heist ah and I tell them back ah and mek we go with ah and when we heist ah, all the blood pour and from then I seh he dead. All ih hands limber, no sign of life. He noh cry, nothing, no sound he nevah mek.”

Janelle Chanona
“Just happen so quick.”

Sophia Gladden
Quick. So and like weh di reports them seh and I guess weh they announce this morning pan the radio that it wrong when G. Michael Reid mek mention that the child wandered, ih noh goh like that. It seh that I suspect; I noh suspect dah the fact that the grill hurt ah, I call it wah freak accident. And when he seh that the grill deh beside ah—he was beside the grill, he noh deh beside the grill, he was within the grill, so I would just want they change that.”

According to Gladden, her father had only built the grill two weeks ago and it had never been used. Funeral arrangements are tentatively set for Friday.