2 Killed When Gunpowder Blast Touches Off Fire
Michelle Apon
Story Created:
Jun 23, 2009 at 9:02 AM CDT
Story Updated:
Jun 23, 2009 at 11:42 AM CDT
COLBERT, Ga. (AP) - A fire that touched off a gunpowder blast
has killed a postal carrier and her brother in the Madison County
town of Colbert.
Coroner Michelle Cleveland said 42-year-old Lisa Shubert and her
39-year-old brother, Terry Cotton, got trapped by the fire in a
shed behind the mobile home Shubert rented.
Colbert and Hull volunteer firefighters, who responded shortly
after 1 a .m. Sunday, pulled both victims from the flames, but
resuscitation efforts failed.
Chief sheriff's investigator Jimmy Patton said Shubert's
boyfriend, 39-year-old Jerry Scott Payne, escaped the building but
was burned over 60 percent of his body. He was hospitalized in
Atlanta.
Authorities said the man who once owned the property used the
shed for a gun shop.
Information from: Athens Banner-Herald,
http://www.onlineathens.com
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
