Body of Louisville boy missing from tornado found in heavily wooded area
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An American flag is mounted on mobile home debris as a searcher looks through the remains of several mobile homes in Louisville, Miss., early Tuesday morning, April 29, 2014 after a tornado hit the east Mississippi community Monday. Tornadoes flattened homes and businesses, flipped trucks over on highways and bent telephone poles into 45-degree angles as they barreled through Alabama and Mississippi on Monday, part of a storm system that killed at least nine people in the South and brought the overall death toll from two days of severe weather in the country to at least 26.(AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
An American flag is mounted on mobile home debris as a searcher looks through the remains of several mobile homes in Louisville, Miss., early Tuesday morning, April 29, 2014 after a tornado hit the east Mississippi community Monday. Tornadoes flattened homes and businesses, flipped trucks over on highways and bent telephone poles into 45-degree angles as they barreled through Alabama and Mississippi on Monday, part of a storm system that killed at least nine people in the South and brought the overall death toll from two days of severe weather in the country to at least 26.(AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s 14th victim from Monday’s tornadoes has been found.
Winston County Coroner Scott Gregory says searchers found the body of 8-year-old Tyler Tucker Thursday afternoon.
Tucker’s body was found about 200 yards north of where the bodies of his mother, 31-year-old Terri Tucker, and father, 44-year-old Sean Fowler, were found Tuesday. Gregory says all were thrown hundreds of yards from their Louisville home, destroyed by Monday afternoon’s tornado. Seven other Winston County residents died from storm injuries. Four died elsewhere in Mississippi from traffic accidents.
Authorities looked for Tucker for days, using cadaver dogs and a computerized tracking system. Gregory says a team found him about 3 p.m. Thursday in a heavily wooded area on Louisville’s east side.
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