EQUESTRIAN RIDER DIES OF INJURIES SUSTAINED FROM FALL.
Posted: March 10th, 2010 10:50 PM
Deputies were called to the 26500blk of NE Rawson Road in Hockinson to a report of a horse that had returned to it's boarding stable without it's rider. A fellow rider found the horse had made it's way back to the stable without the rider. She immediately went looking for the rider up a Longview Timber owned, gravel road. About 1 mile up the road she discovered the body of Candace "Candy" Morrison, 57 of Battle Ground, on the road. Candace had head trauma and was not wearing a riding helmet.
Detectives with the Major Crime Unit were summoned to investigate. An autopsy is pending and her family has been notified. Candy Morrison was a music teacher at Hudson's Bay High School in Vancouver. The school Principal was notified and he asked that all press inquiry's be sent to Vancouver School District PIO, Kris Sork in the morning.
Sergeant Kevin Allais
Major Crimes Unit
Clark County Sheriff's Office
360-397-2020
pager 360-759-8278 (please don't page after 2330 please)
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