PALMETTO, Fla. — A 7-year-old boy was killed by falling pallets in an apparent tragic accident in Palmetto Thursday morning at about 11:00 a.m.
Leonardo Chavez-Renteria was playing in the area where a forklift was moving empty pallets from a truck, when deputies say 15-20 pallets fell from the truck, hitting him.
He was brought to Manatee Memorial Hospital with trauma to his body and was pronounced dead at the hospital.
It happened at a storage area at 1805 20th St. E. in Palmetto.
