Officers investigate burning death

  • Center police officers interview bystanders at the scene where a Center resident perished in an accidental burning last Friday. Zack Clark | Light and Champion
    Center police officers interview bystanders at the scene where a Center resident perished in an accidental burning last Friday. Zack Clark | Light and Champion
  • Officers with the Center Police Department load evidence gathered at the scene of an accidental death into the back of a pickup. Zack Clark | Light and Champion
    Officers with the Center Police Department load evidence gathered at the scene of an accidental death into the back of a pickup. Zack Clark | Light and Champion
    In what is being preliminarily termed a tragic accident, the body of a Center resident was discovered pinned under a burn barrel in the early morning hours of Friday, Oct. 31.According to Shelby County District Attorney Karren Price, witnesses had seen the person, Stacy Ruth, as they described it, playing in the fire in the barrel the evening before his body was discovered. Before the wi...

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