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Engineer, investigator to probe Williamston wall collapse

WKAR Public Media
Published October 28, 2011 at 6:15 PM EDT

By AP

WILLIAMSTON, MI –

A structural engineer and an insurance investigator will help determine why an 8-foot wall collapsed in a Michigan high school locker room, killing a 14-year-old student.

Police said Williamston High School freshman Gabriel Corbett was buried under cement blocks from the interior wall Wednesday and later pronounced dead at a hospital.

Principal Jeff Thoenes tells the Lansing State Journal for a story published Friday that the locker room will remain closed for now. He says the school otherwise is believed to be safe.

Police said that the boy had jumped and grabbed for the top to do a pull-up when the wall collapsed.
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