BLACKSHEAR, Ga. (AP) – A 5-year-old girl died Monday after a stone monument fell on her while she was playing.
Blackshear Police Chief Chris Wright told news outlets that Bella Bennett had been playing with her 8-year-old sister on, and around, the monument outside Lee Street Resource Center when the accident happened.
Wright told News4Jax that at some point, the 300-pound stone toppled over, landing on the younger sister. The girl was airlifted to Wolfson Children’s Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
The station reported that the girls lived near the building where the accident occurred.
Bella Bennett had just started kindergarten at Blackshear Elementary.