Champaign Boy Chokes on Marshmallow

Thursday, 9 July 2015

Authorities in southern Illinois say a 6-year-old Champaign boy choked to death on part of marshmallow while at a private campground on Carlyle Lake.

Bond County Coroner Tony Brooks says Jeremiah M. Woods was at a picnic table with his family at Hickory Shores Resort when he became unresponsive.

Authorities say the incident happened after the boy took a bite out of a large marshmallow.

First responders took the boy to Greenville Regional Hospital about 20 miles away.

The boy was pronounced dead there late Saturday.

Autopsy results are pending.

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