Boy killed at York Hotel identified as 10-year-old boy from Wisconsin | Crime-and-courts
York News-Times
YORK — A 10-year-old child from Wisconsin has been identified as the boy killed when the roof collapsed at the Hampton Inn in York on Sunday evening.
Ben Prince of Hudson, Wisconsin, was with his family on vacation, according to KSTP Channel 5 News in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Prince, his parents and two brothers were in the hotel pool when the roof collapsed, the ABC affiliate reported. A family member reportedly tried to lift a segment of the boy’s roof, but it was too heavy. Ben died at the scene.
Ben Prince, 10, of Hudson, Wisconsin, was killed in a roof collapse at the Hampton Inn in York on Sunday.
Photos provided by the Prince family to KSTP Channel 5
The broadcaster spoke with the Prince family pastor at Hudson’s Faith Community Church.
“Children are supposed to bury their parents, not the other way around. Life can be short. Reality is often cruel and painful. As we learn, there are no guarantees and sometimes it is brutally, brutally shortened,” the pastor said.
No other injuries were reported as a result of the collapse.
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The situation is under investigation and no details on the cause are available at this time.
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