May 18, 2021

Update: 3-year-old dies after run over near his Kan. home

Posted May 18, 2021 7:56 PM
First responders at the home Monday evening photo courtesy KWCH
First responders at the home Monday evening photo courtesy KWCH

GODDARD, Kan. (AP) — Sedgwick County authorities say a 3-year-old boy died after being accidentally run over by a truck driven by a family member.

Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter says officers responding to a home in Goddard Monday evening found the identified as The Sedgwick County’s Sheriff’s office identified the three-year-old who died in Goddard Monday evening as Kannon Agnew dead at the scene.

The sheriff says Kannon was outside with his father and three other children when he stopped to change his shoes, which were on the wrong feet.

The driver was moving the vehicle to hook it to a trailer and didn't see the child sitting there. Easter says the investigation will continue but the death appears to be “a horrible accident.”