SIKESTON MAN KILLED BY FALLING TREE LIMB

SIKESTON -- A 27-year-old Sikeston man clearing storm damage from a tree died Thursday night in what Scott County Coroner Scott Amick termed a freak accident.

Timothy Ray Haddock was trying to pull a damaged limb from a tree at his home Thursday evening when the limb fell toward him and a branch stuck in his neck, cutting a major artery, the coroner said.

"He was bleeding internally and externally," Amick said.

Medical help was summoned immediately, but Haddock was pronounced dead at Delta Medical Center in Sikeston at 8:30 p.m.

A lifelong resident of Scott County, he was employed by Dutch Enterprises in Jackson and was engaged to be married.