A local boy passed away at the emergency room of DeKalb Community Hospital Sunday afternoon after apparently falling from a bunk bed at his Smithville home. Dead is Kayden Ray Fults, 2.
According to Lieutenant Matt Holmes of the Smithville Police Department, "Officers contacted me and told me that they had been called to the emergency room because a two-year-old child had passed away. The doctors had been working to save him for about an hour and a half. We were told he had fallen off a bunk bed, and that the family had transported him to the hospital. The Vanderbilt Lifeforce helicopter had already landed, but the child passed away at the emergency room."
While Holmes did not say that foul play was suspected, he said the matter was under investigation. "He was sent for an autopsy, and the matter is still under investigation by the Smithville Police Department, the district attorney’s office and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation," the lieutenant said. "DCS is involved as well. I don’t want to allude that there is any wrongdoing, but any time there is a death of this sort it’s appropriate to conduct a full investigation."
Fults was the son of Kaycie Lynn Fults and Mark Johnson of Smithville. Johnson is a volunteer fireman at the Short Mountain station, and the county fire department will be holding a spaghetti dinner and silent auction benefit to help the family with funeral expenses. The event will be held March 21 from 4:30-7:30 p.m. at the DeKalb County Community Complex.
Tickets can be purchases in advance for $5 by contacting Heather Reed at 615-999-5412, Leighann Summers at 615-605-9791, Robin Summers at 615-605-9783 or Brent Reed at 615-801-1108. Tickets will also be available at the door for $6. Any additional donations, including items for the silent auction, will be greatly appreciated. Dinner will include spaghetti, salad, bread, drink and dessert.
Funeral Services will be held on March 5 at 2 p.m. in the Chapel of Woodbury Funeral Home. Interment will follow in the Hale Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be from 4-8 p.m. on March 4, 2015. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Woodbury Funeral Home to help the family with funeral expenses.