Boy dies after found hanging from curtain in Reading

READING, Pa. - May 13, 2013

Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams says investigators are trying to determine for certain if the death of Josiah W. Boggs was a freak accident as his family has said. He was found hanging form a curtain in a closet while playing with brother, who's also 7.

Family members say the other brother told them something had happened to Josiah and they found the boy hanging in the closet. His father, Chris Boggs, says the boy may have fashioned a swing out of a pole and a curtain.

The boy was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead Saturday afternoon.

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