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Cudjoe teen electrocuted while cutting tree limbs
Citizen Staff
KEY WEST — A 15-year-old Cudjoe Key boy died of electrocution Thursday afternoon while trimming trees at a Key West property, police reported.
Preston Hartman, whose family owns Tarzan Tree Service of the Keys, was standing on an aluminum ladder holding a pole saw at the property on the corner of Alberta and Washington streets when he was electrocuted at 12:06 p.m., according to Key West Detective Sgt. Donie Lee.
Hartman, who was working with two other people at the time, was taken by ambulance to Lower Keys Medical Center where he was pronounced dead, said Lee.
Investigators have not determined exactly how the accident occurred, said Lee. Key West detectives, along with the Monroe County Medical Examiner's Office, are conducting an investigation.
"We're still looking into the exact cause," said Lee.
At Key West High School, where Hartman began the school year as a freshman before beginning home schooling a few months ago, principal John Welsh was consulting with grief counselors whom he said would be available to students all day.
"The whole freshman class probably knows him," said Welsh.
Hartman had graduated from Sugarloaf School last year before beginning the school year at Key West.
