Sixth-Grader Dies In UTV Crash In Jo Daviess County

Officials say a sixth-grade student at Stockton Middle School has died as a result of a crash involving a utility vehicle over the weekend in Jo Daviess County. According to a statement on the Stockton Community Unit School District 206 website, Eli Henderson died after the crash. A release from the Jo Daviess County Sheriff’s Department states that deputies were dispatched at about 4:15 p.m. Saturday to South Fairway Road in rural Stockton, for a UTV crash with entrapment. Upon arrival, it was discovered a UTV operated by a juvenile with another juvenile passenger on private property had rolled over after striking a stump. Both occupants of the UTV were thrown from the vehicle and the operator of the UTV was pinned underneath it. Henderson, the operator of the UTV was taken by ambulance to FHN Memorial Hospital in Freeport for treatment of his injuries but later died from the injuries. Stockton school district officials have called upon an area school intervention team to address the needs of students, parents and school personnel.