Brent Boyd, 41, and Shameka Boyd, 40, and a 34-year-old driver were injured after a car struck two horseback riders on U.S. 51 in Copiah County, Mississippi
Couple’s search for missing boy turns deadly when car hits their horses, family says
A Mississippi couple was struck by a car while riding their horses, said family and friends of the pair. Brent Boyd and Shameka Boyd, a husband and wife from Ruth, were riding horseback on a search for a missing boy in Wesson when a vehicle crashed into them, killing the horses, Jackie Edmonds Saujon, a family member, said in a Feb. 12 Facebook post. The Boyds were hit Feb. 11 by a Chevrolet Equinox traveling on U.S. 51 in Copiah County, according to a Mississippi Highway Patrol news release.
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