NEW JERSEY — A 6-year-old girl from New Jersey died after being pierced by a badminton racket while playing with her brother while on vacation in Maine, police said.
The local fire department and EMS responded to a residence in Limerick on June 1 around noon for an injured child.
Investigators said that 6-year-old Lucy Morgan was injured when an aluminum shaft of a badminton racquet dislodged from the wooden handle and struck her in the head.
She was taken to a hospital in Sanford and then to Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine.
She died from her injuries four days later.
Lucy’s father, Jesse Morgan, a pastor at Discipleship at Green Pond Bible Chapel in Rockaway, New Jersey, announced his daughter’s death.
A GoFundMe page has raised more than $123,000.
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