Sunday, March 4, 2012

Tornado Survivor Dies In Louisville Hospital

  • {Louisville, Kentucky}...Doctors at Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville worked hard as 15 month old Angel Babcock clung to her life after she was found in a field near her home in New Pekin, Indiana Friday. But, Sunday, after being taken off life support, Babcock died at 4:10 P.M. of a traumatic brain injury. Angel Babcock had been the sole family survivor of a tornado that ripped through their home, killing her parents and two siblings. A neighbor says, in their last moments, the girl’s parents, Joesph Babcock, 21, Moriah Brough, 20, and her two siblings, Jaydon Babcock, 2, and Kendall Babcock, two months, who perished in the tornado were lying face-down in a hallway in their mobile home, holding hands and praying. Beverly Lanham, who lives next door, said her boyfriend, Jason Miller, tried in vain to save the family, going outside as the funnel cloud neared to warn them to get inside, while offering a place in his bigger, double-wide mobile home. Lanham said the twister picked Miller up and threw him and members of the family across the neighborhood off Old Pekin Road.