Fourth Greene Co. student dies
Published 9:02 am Friday, January 20, 2012
A fourth teen has died from injuries sustained in a single-vehicle accident Wednesday in Greene County.
Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Cpl. Todd Miller tells The Hattiesburg American 17-year-old Joseph Lister died Thursday afternoon at the University of Southern Alabama Medical Center in Mobile.
Miller, who didn’t know the exact cause of death, said Lister sustained serious head trauma in the accident.
Also killed in Wednesday’s wreck were Dillion Reid and Codi Henderson, both 16; and 15-year-old Stephen Nicholson.
Seventeen-year-old Russell Green remains in fair condition.
All five teens were students at Greene County High School.
The accident occurred about four miles off Mississippi 594 near Leakesville.
Miller said the students’ truck ran off the roadway, hit an embankment and flipped several times, ejecting all five occupants from the vehicle.
