Vernon Leon Davis, an assistant fire chief and longtime volunteer firefighter in Blackshear, Georgia, was killed early Friday morning when a tree fell on his pickup truck during a severe storm.
“We’re all better for having known him,” the police chief of Blackshear, Georgia , said of firefighter Vernon Leon Davis. “He would do anything for anybody.”In Catawba County, North Carolina, a 4-year-old who lit up every room she walked into was killed in a head-on car crash on a rainy road. And in Charlotte, North Carolina, a tree fell on a home, killing a resident.
“That was my last communication with him,” Davis said Friday afternoon, his voice breaking as he spoke. The families’ vehicles got into a collision just after 8 a.m. ET Thursday when one car crossed the centerline of a road and collided head-on with the other, according to a statement from the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
Gaddis, who lives in Iredell County, North Carolina, added that her faith has helped her through the tragedy of losing Luna. “He was helping teach the prisoners a skill for whenever they got out,” said Lester, who is 57 and lives in Culloden, Georgia.
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