The eight-year-old killed at a Reid Park baseball field during a thunderstorm Friday evening was electrocuted, but not struck by lightning, according to the Pima County’s medical examiner.
“He was electrocuted, but it was not lightning. There’s no indication it was lightning. The exact mechanism of the electrocution” is not known, said Pima County Medical Examiner Bruce Parks, MD. “But obviously (there was) some current flowing through his body that shouldn’t have been there.”
Parks said an autopsy was performed Monday morning.
Deshaun Glover was seen standing in a puddle near a light pole at a baseball field just west of Hi Corbett Field in Reid Park Friday evening before he collapsed.
The field, being used for a youth baseball tournament, had already been cleared because of concerns about nearby lightning, according to people at the field who spoke to police.
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Others there for the game fled the heavy rains, crowding into the field’s dugouts. Glover, who was there to see his older brother play, was not in the dugout. Those who tried to move and revive Glover said they were unable to because they were shocked when they touched him.
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