🌱 Fatal Accident In Pinson + Jail Inmate Found Dead

Hey there, Trussville! It's Thursday, so let's get you set up with everything you need to know going on in town today. Sadly, early this morning in Pinson, a man died in an accident on a construction site in the Innsbrook area. The 42-year-old man was struck when the supports of a concrete truck with a boom extension sunk into the mud causing the extension to swing around and strike a worker at the scene. Read more about it below.

Here are the top stories today in Trussville:

1. As I was saying above, a 42-year-old man died Thursday morning at a construction site in the Innsbrook subdivision of Pinson. The incident occurred just before 7 a.m. (Trussville Patch)
2. The Trussville Rotary Daybreak Club selected Hewitt-Trussville High School and Restoration Academy students to attend the RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) conference in February at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville. (Trussville Tribune)
3. DeAngelo Maurice Barrett, 29, of Birmingham, was an inmate at the Jefferson County Jail when he was found unresponsive and transported to UAB Hospital for treatment. He was pronounced dead Wednesday. (Trussville Tribune)
4. Although the first day of spring is just days away, temperatures in the Birmingham metro are expected to fall into the 20s this weekend with snow forecast for much of the north and central parts of the state. (Birmingham Patch)

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