An eighth person has died from the Easter Sunday tornadoes that swept through Murray County, Georgia.
Harlan Blackstock, 57, died Thursday night at a Chattanooga hospital, Murray County Coroner Jason Gibson confirmed.
On Easter night, an EF3 tornado came through Murray County in the middle of the night, killing eight and injuring nearly two dozen.
Blackstock was injured and hospitalized after the storm that had killed a reported seven people in Murray County.
Three of those seven – Wilber Brookshire, 79; Myrtle Brookshire, 75; and Wilber Brookshire Jr. – were related to Blackstock through marriage. They were his father-in-law, mother-in-law and brother-in-law.