The 14-year-old Detroit boy shocked by a fallen power line has died, Tammy Stables Battaglia reports in the Free Press.
According to the Washtenaw County Medical Examiner’s Office, Malik Shelton died at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital.
The cause of death was electrocution.
Battaglia writes:
The boy was shocked a week ago walking home from Burns Elementary/Middle School in Detroit after classes were canceled due to a storm-related power outage. Police said a DTE Energy worker was nearby, directing people away from power lines down across Lyndon, behind the school.
But Malik was shocked as he tried to pass under a downed line behind the school on Marlowe, one house away from Lyndon, according to investigators. Police said schoolmates who were with him took heroic measures, knocking his hand off the live wire with a piece of wood and calling for help. They were not injured.
