TX - Jiree Mobley, 12, riding ATV, killed by barbed wire across road, 19 April 2015

[kimi_SFC]

Family mourns, questions 12-year-old's ATV death:

SMITH COUNTY, TX (KLTV) - The family of a 12-year-old boy who was killed after hitting barbed wire while riding an ATV is speaking out about the incident.

Jiree Mobley was riding his ATV Sunday afternoon when he ran into a length of barbed wire that had been stretched across County Road 3158 in East Smith County. Mobley was pronounced dead at UT Health Northeast from injuries sustained in the ATV wreck.

Embedded video, slideshow & More@Link
http://www.kltv.com/story/28851394/family-mourns-questions-12-year-olds-atv-death

OP via SCHMAE (BREAKING NEWS thread):

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=189775

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[kimi_SFC]

The embedded video (posted Sunday) at this link is a MUST WATCH:

Boy dies after hitting barbed wire on ATV; deputies investigating:

http://www.kltv.com/story/28849003/boy-dies-after-hitting-barbed-wire-on-atv-deputies-investigating

Images of the victim (from embedded video

This is a screengrab from the embedded video of the location where the incident occurred:

Jiree's brother performed CPR on him before EMS arrived. The video states Jiree had dreams of becoming a DOCTOR! now those dreams are gone forever :tears:

I hope LE is able to get to the bottom of this horrific crime. The images of the crime scene leave no doubt this child suffered.

:furious:

Rest In Peace, Jiree. You WILL be missed!
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[Frigga]

So sad and senseless- RIP sweet boy. I am so sorry for his older brother and the Grandma who was raising him. What a travesty.

 

[kimi_SFC]

WLBT (Mississippi News Now): Family mourns, questions 12-year-old's ATV death.

Smith County Sheriff officials say they have identified a man they believe put the barbed wire up and that they have an open investigation into Mobley's death.

MuchMore@Link:
http://m.msnewsnow.com/msnewsnow/pm_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=od:zj8LE9kB

raying:
For #JusticeForJiree!
lease:

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[murphy3k]

This is an awful situation. How cruel!

I suspect we will learn the suspect took issue with this kid riding his ATV up and down the county roads. Many communities are dealing with ATVs on roads and thoroughfares, but this is not the way to deal with that. We have an issue with ATV riders on city streets and in parks in the Atlanta metro area. I have seen many people comment on ways to stop them in their tracks similar to this. Thankfully, nothing like this has happened.

This is not the way you deal with community problems such as this at all!

MOO.

 

[wendybtn]

You cannot obstruct a public roadway. Whatever charges stem from that beginning fact should be filed, IMO.

 

[al66pine]

http://www.kltv.com/clip/11410868/barbed-wire-death?autostart=true
Per ^ anchor, "Jiree was out riding with his family.... His brother quickly ran to his aid."

Brother, Equilla Mobley, 24 y/o, is quoted:
"I sat with my brother during 15 minutes of CPR," Equilla says, "waiting on the ambulance to get here"
"I'm just 24-years-old and to see death that close to me instead of on TV, like it's supposed to be, it's just hard to take in."
http://www.kltv.com/story/28851394/family-mourns-questions-12-year-olds-atv-death

Sad, sad, sad.

From ^post by Kimi-SFC, Glad to see -
"Smith County Sheriff officials say they have identified a man they believe put the barbed wire up and t
hat they have an open investigation into Mobley's death." bbm
hhttp://m.msnewsnow.com/msnewsnow/pm_...id=od:zj8LE9kB

 

[al66pine]

Reminders from http://www.atvsafety.org/ w bbm

"The ATV Safety Institute's Golden Rules:

1. Always wear a DOT-compliant helmet, goggles, long sleeves, long pants, over-the-ankle boots, and gloves.
2. Never ride on paved roads except to cross when done safely and permitted by law - another vehicle could hit you. ATVs are designed to be operated off-highway.
3. Never ride under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
4. Never carry a passenger on a single-rider ATV, and no more than one passenger on an ATV specifically designed for two people.
5. Ride an ATV that's right for your age.
6. Supervise riders younger than 16; ATVs are not toys.
7. Ride only on designated trails and at a safe speed.
8. Take a hands-on ATV RiderCourse and the free online E-Course. Visit ATVSafety.org."

From wiki, footnote 15 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-terrain_vehicle
"CPSC 2005 Annual Report of Deaths and Injuries" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
(sorry, not showing more recent info)

Again, glad Sheriff's office has an open investigation in this case and has ID'ed a suspect.
Who thinks putting barbed wire across a public road = good idea? First class idiot & criminal.

Sad, sad, sad for the family.

 

[SCHMAE]

http://www.kltv.com/story/28861266/...ne-when-placing-fence-that-killed-12-year-old

''A Smith County man charged in a 12-year-old's death said "he did not want to hurt anyone" and was only trying to curb thefts on his family's property, according to an arrest warrant obtained Tuesday.'''

So senseless

 

[MsFacetious]

Benita Caddell said her mother-in-law was older and unable to maintain the property at the dead end of the road. She said her husband had made several claims that people were dumping trash and stealing from two trailer houses on his mother's property, although he never complained of kids or people riding four-wheelers along the road.

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On Monday, Smith County detectives spoke with medical personnel from UT Health Center, who said 12-year-old Jiree Mobley had head and neck trauma, c-spine and skull fractures, and an external puncture wound on his neck. Doctors told detectives Mobley's injuries and death were a direct result from hitting the fence.

http://www.kltv.com/story/28861266/...ne-when-placing-fence-that-killed-12-year-old

This fence clearly should not have been there.
However, this child should have been wearing a helmet as well.
This is not meant to blame the victim or the family.
However this might have been a horrible accident instead of a death... if he'd had a helmet on.
I don't know what actually killed him.. if it was the neck injury a helmet may not have helped anyway.

People shouldn't drive drunk... but they do.
So I make sure that my children are as safe in the car as possible.
People shouldn't act like idiots on snowmobiles, but they do.
So again, we make sure the kids are as safe as possible.

ATV's should have a helmet and chest protector at a minimum... just like we do on snowmobiles.
I lost a couple of friends when I was a kid due to lack of helmets. They are important. :twocents:

 

[kimi_SFC]

http://www.kltv.com/story/28861266/...ne-when-placing-fence-that-killed-12-year-old

''A Smith County man charged in a 12-year-old's death said "he did not want to hurt anyone" and was only trying to curb thefts on his family's property, according to an arrest warrant obtained Tuesday.'''

So senseless

From your link:

He told Hinton he "wanted, at most, to scratch someone's car up as they went ... to dump trash." When asked if he if reported any of the illegal or suspicious activity, including the trash dumps or theft, he said he hadn't. He also acknowledged several people requesting he remove the fence. Following the interview, Vernon Caddell was released at the scene.
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The ME's report will have direct bearing on how adjudication plays out - especially if this reaches sentencing.

Scratches cars? What about the damage to HUMAN BEINGS?!


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[kimi_SFC]

UPDATE: Smith Co. man charged with manslaughter after boy dies in ATV accident - KYTX CBS19.tv - News, Weather, & Sports | Tyler-Longview

UPDATE: CHAPEL HILL (KYTX) – A Chapel Hill man charged with manslaughter.

He's accused of stringing the barbed wire fence killing 12-year old- Jiree Mobley this weekend.

The man's brother says the fence served a purpose. 58-year-old Jiree Ray Caddell turned himself in this morning.

(snip)

We spoke to Jiree's family yesterday as they dealt with their loss.

"He was a light and full of life..." said Jiree's grandmother, Johnnie Mobley.

Now today, a sigh of relief as family members say they're glad Caddell is off the streets.

"It still doesn't bring our baby back...that neighborhood is going to be eventually torn up. My son is not going to have anyone to eventually go out and have fun with," said Ericka Franklin, victim's cousin.

We stopped by the home where neighbors say Caddell lives. Caddell's brother, Issaac Caddell, told us the wire was there to keep burglars away.

That doesn't matter to the Mobleys, as they grieve the loss of Jiree.

"I understand that you're trying to protect your neighborhood and people are stealing is what he's saying but that doesn't give him reason to put a fence across the road," said Franklin.

Caddell's brother also says Ray had been reaching out to Smith County for several years -- asking for something to be done about the burglaries, he says nothing was done and that's when the barbed wire went up.

Caddell is being held in the Smith County jail. His bond is $750,000.

More@Link

http://www.cbs19.tv/story/28848057/...h-manslaughter-after-boy-dies-in-atv-accident




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[JeannaT]

Awful. This is sounding like one of those sad sad accidents. I couldn't tell from the map - was there anyone else who owned property beyond the barbed wire stretched across the road? Was the barbed wire stretched across the road literally only an access to this one property? I ask, because we live in an area where there is a road near construction, and I can't believe the amount of trash people dumped in our yard - even cement. Cement trucks would come and offload gallons and gallons of wet cement that we had to later chip away from the property with a sledgehammer. Or a truckload of broken furniture, the backseat of a car, lawn and leaf bags of refuse. Was this what they were dealing with, and their thought was to put barbed wire across the road access to their property?

 

[mitzi]

When I was about 10, I was riding my bike from a drugstore(about 1/2 block from my house, toward my home. I had to ride past a gas station, and there were 2 posts that I thought would be fun to ride between. What I didn't know was that there was rope between the two polesm that had stretched a plastic sign up at one time. (The sign was missing). I got one heck of a rope butn on my neck and it yanked me off the bike. I look back now and think OMG, thank goodness they didn't ust wire to hang their signs, or I could have decatitated myself. Kids will do things innocently, but sometimes the results are dire.
This man should absolutely NOT have put the barbed wire fence across the road, but the young man should have been wearing a helmut.

 

[JeannaT]

When I was about 10, I was riding my bike from a drugstore(about 1/2 block from my house, toward my home. I had to ride past a gas station, and there were 2 posts that I thought would be fun to ride between. What I didn't know was that there was rope between the two polesm that had stretched a plastic sign up at one time. (The sign was missing). I got one heck of a rope butn on my neck and it yanked me off the bike. I look back now and think OMG, thank goodness they didn't ust wire to hang their signs, or I could have decatitated myself. Kids will do things innocently, but sometimes the results are dire.
This man should absolutely NOT have put the barbed wire fence across the road, but the young man should have been wearing a helmut.

Horrible. When I was about 10, I had a friend who was riding her bike through back yards in a neighborhood on an air force base. We all rode our bikes through the back yards - no one cared, it was all rental properties, and it was no big deal. This day, they had strung a wire clothes line between two trees and my friend caught the clothes line in the mouth. It ripped her skin all the way to her ears and knocked her backwards off her bike onto her skull. She was out of school for 6 months. It was awful, a clear accident. (Before anyone says she shouldn't have been riding across private property, Air Force neighborhoods aren't like that. This was a grouping of houses around a park, and it was all Air Force property). Anyway, wires stretched across places can be VERY dangerous, accidentally.

 

[kimi_SFC]

Horrible. When I was about 10, I had a friend who was riding her bike through back yards in a neighborhood on an air force base. We all rode our bikes through the back yards - no one cared, it was all rental properties, and it was no big deal. This day, they had strung a wire clothes line between two trees and my friend caught the clothes line in the mouth. It ripped her skin all the way to her ears and knocked her backwards off her bike onto her skull. She was out of school for 6 months. It was awful, a clear accident. (Before anyone says she shouldn't have been riding across private property, Air Force neighborhoods aren't like that. This was a grouping of houses around a park, and it was all Air Force property). Anyway, wires stretched across places can be VERY dangerous, accidentally.

I grew up on a military base as well (Army Brat here) and can attest to the picture you're painting JeannaT. Base housing was exactly they way back in the dark ages when I was growing up and riding bikes through the neighborhoods.

How terrifying and painful for your friend to experience (and traumatic, especially if you happened to witness it firsthand).




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[rtjedarling]

Being a parent is a hard job. I don't know what the laws are there for operating a four wheeler, but there are people who will put fences up, dig holes, and storms can blow down trees (friend was driving her car at night after a storm and tree had fell and she hit it and her child was killed, but she was not speeding and the child was properly restrained according to legal requirements, which is our responsibility as parents) If the child by law was to have a helmet, or there was some other ATV law being broken-then sorry, at least partial responsibility falls on the parents. I still see parents breaking the ATV laws in my state by allowing no helmet and several people on the ATV. People it's too late when your child is killed or seriously injured!

 

[al66pine]

Being a parent is a hard job.... If the child by law was to have a helmet, or there was some other ATV law being broken-then sorry, at least partial responsibility falls on the parents. I still see parents breaking the ATV laws in my state by allowing no helmet and several people on the ATV. People it's too late when your child is killed or seriously injured!

Of the following provisions, seems he definitely should not been on public road, except to cross it.

"(a) A person may not operate an all-terrain vehicle on a public street, road, or highway except as provided by this section" [a few exceptions not app to situation, except to cross]. bbm
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/txstatutes/TN/7/G/663/C/663.037#sthash.KXOsfIJW.dpuf

"Aperson may not carry a passenger on an all-terrain vehicle operated on public property
unless the all-terrain vehicle is designed by the manufacturer to transport a passenger." bbm
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/txstatutes/TN/7/G/663/C/663.037#sthash.KXOsfIJW.dpuf


"A person younger than 14 years of age who is operating an all-terrain vehicle must be
accompanied by and be under the direct supervision of:
(1) the person's parent or guardian; or(2) an adult who is authorized by the person's parent or guardian." bbm http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/txstatutes/TN/7/G/663/C/663.032

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/msb/vehDescReq.htm

JM2cts.

 

[wendybtn]

Attorney: Client relieved at no-bill, deeply saddened by 12-year-old's death

Grand jury refuses to indict man arrested on manslaughter charges in Jiree Mobley's death.

 

[al66pine]

Attorney: Client relieved at no-bill, deeply saddened by 12-year-old's death
Grand jury refuses to indict man arrested on manslaughter charges in Jiree Mobley's death.

@wendybtn Thx for your post, updating us on this sad, no, tragic case.