Two-Year-Old Dies at Daycare Center

WALB-TV in Albany reports two-year-old Jamerson Goodman died after stepping on the bottom of a metal stand which held a television, VCR and DVD player, causing the equipment to fall over and crash onto him at the Pine Street Church of God Daycare in Douglas.

The boy was taken to Coffee County Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. His funeral is Sunday at the McLean-Litman Funeral Home in Douglas.

The Department of Family and Children Services and the Douglas Police Department are investigating.

Unbeknownst to the mother, Kimberly Wright, she said her final goodbye to Jamerson that morning when she dropped him off on her way to work. At 3 p.m., she received the call saying he had been injured and was on his way to the hospital.

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