Names of tornado victims released

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Dave Crooks photo. Gov. Eric Holcomb, center, and Mayor Clint Lamb speak to residents in Sullivan on Saturday.

 

SULLIVAN — Officials have released the names of victims in west central, Indiana.

Sullivan was struck by an EF3 tornado that ravaged the small town Friday night with peak winds of 155 mph.

The Sullivan County victims are among at least five people who died in Indiana during the severe storms.

One of the people killed was Shane Goodman, 47, who lived just outside Sullivan city limits, Sullivan Mayor Clint Lamb told media Sunday afternoon. In the tightknit town of less than 5,000, the Goodman family was well-known..

Goodman was trapped in rubble under his home right outside Sullivan city limits at St. Claire Street, Sullivan County coroner Joe Coffman told IndyStar Sunday afternoon.

The two other victims are Susan Kay Horton, 61, and Thomas Randall Horton, 38, according to Coffman.

The cause of death for all three victims was blunt force trauma.

Coffman said he believes the Hortons were in their house when it was picked up by the tornado into the air, carried through the air, and crashed into the ground. Their home was on the 800 block of South County Road 250 West in Sullivan.

“They were killed by the forces of their house crashing back to the ground,” he told IndyStar Sunday afternoon.

A Rossville couple was killed while camping at McCormick’s Creek State Park and its campgrounds were flattened by severe storms Friday night into Saturday morning.

The deceased were found during a search Saturday. The victims have been identified as Brett Kincaid, 53, and Wendy Kincaid, 47.