Mom Disputes Official Account of Canton Soldier's Death

CANTON, CT — The official law enforcement account of the death of a Connecticut soldier on a Tennessee highway last October is being called into question by the victim's mother.

Kimberly Read of Canton told medium.com there are a number of inaccuracies in the statements made by police to media members following the Oct. 15, 2016 incident on Highway 41-A in Pleasant View, Tenn., which resulted in the death of her son, Austin McGeough.

McGeough, 21, a 2013 East Granby High School graduate who had been stationed at nearby Fort Campbell, Ky. for about a year, allegedly broke into a nursery and put his hand through a wasp nest early that morning, resulting in a claim by a Cheatham County sheriff and a detective that he was being chased by wasps when he ran onto the roadway.

According to a detective, a car struck McGeough and knocked him to the pavement; he was then run over by at least two more vehicles. The driver who originally struck McGeough immediately called police.

Read said items confirmed in the autopsy of her son contradict claims made by law enforcement officers.

Read more at www.medium.com.

Photo courtesy of Kimberly Read