WBBJ TV
April 24, 2021
A visitation was held Saturday afternoon at Arrington Funeral Home for fallen Sheriff’s Deputy Terry Dyer.
On Tuesday, Dyer collapsed while on duty in Madison County General Sessions Court.
He was rushed to a local hospital, where he later died.
Funeral services for Deputy Dyer will be held at West Jackson Baptist Church on Oil Well Road at 2, Sunday afternoon.
was in trouble for drunk driving. 5:16 and three people under arrest in connection with the disappearance of police officer kevin quick who s been missing for a week. authorities say three siblings, two sisters and a brother, are in custody, two charged with stealing quick s suv, found abandoned. state police say they were recorded driving the vehicle in northern virginia. new developments in the case of a georgia team found dead inside a gym mat at his high school. kendrick johnson s family is now suing the funeral home that handled his body. as cnn first reported, when the body was exhumed, the family discovered johnson s internal organs had been removed and replaced with newspaper. the lawsuit accuses harrington funeral home of acting in a morally despicable way. no response yet from the funeral home. this morning we re getting a better look at the evidence against a florida man accused of a deadly shooting in a movie theater. a bail hearing for 71-year-old curtis reeves is se
i want to read just a line in the conclusion here. the board has exhausted all available investigative avenues at its disposal, and no d determination could be made whether the organs were transferred to the funeral establishment with the body. at the end of the investigation have come out with what the decision is. and in this case, no action. the body was also stuffed with newspaper. so i mean again somebody s lying. either somebody who did the original autopsy didn t include the organs in the body, or there s someone at the funeral home did something with the organs and stuffed wit newspaper. somebody s not telling the truth. reporter: well, the funeral home here has never denied stuffing the body with newspaper, although we spoke with leaders at the industry at mortuary sciences, they say it s something they ve never heard of or not in line with standard practices. the manager and owner of harrington funeral home would not speak with us on camera but
there s somebody who did the original autopsy didn t include the organs in the body or there s someone at the funeral home that did something with the organs and stuffed it with newspaper. i mean, somebody s not telling the truth. well, the funeral home has never denied stuffing the body with newspaper, although we spoke with leaders at the industry at mortairy scientists, and they say it s either something they ve never heard of or something not in line with standard practices. the manager and owner of harrington funeral home, antonio harrington, would not speak with us on camera, but he allowed his attorney, roy copeland to speak with us. and in the defense of the funeral home, stuffing the cavity with newspaper, he cited a 25-year-old guide for embalming, which suggests when the organs are absent, you use sawdust or cotton, and i highlight that newspaper is not one of them. he says it absolutely is not one of them, nor is it precluded as one type of foreign substance that may be i