Timber Taylor was pronounced dead after the Wednesday afternoon incident in Attala County’s rural Hesterville community.
HESTERVILLE, Miss. — A 6-year-old boy died after he was struck by a log truck at a logging job site in a wooded part of Attala County, according to the county coroner and local news reports.
Attala County Coroner Sam Bell identified the child as Timber Taylor of neighboring Montgomery County. Bell said the collision happened Wednesday afternoon, July 22, in the Hesterville community. Emergency dispatchers were contacted at about 4:24 p.m., and Taylor was pronounced dead at the scene.
Authorities had released few details about the circumstances surrounding the collision as of Wednesday. Officials did not publicly identify the driver, the logging company or the owner of the truck. They also had not explained why the child was at the active job site or described what the truck was doing immediately before the collision.
Local reports placed the incident at approximately 4:30 p.m. at a logging operation in the woods. The accounts consistently said a log truck at the site struck Taylor, but authorities had not released a detailed sequence of events or said whether any other vehicles or equipment were involved.
Officials did not immediately announce whether a law enforcement agency or workplace safety authority was investigating. No citations or criminal charges had been reported, and authorities had not said whether the incident was being treated solely as an accident. The limited public information did not identify any witnesses.
Taylor attended Winona Christian School, according to WCBI. In a public statement reported by the station, the school asked its community to remember Taylor’s family, friends, classmates, church and the wider community following his death.
The child lived in Montgomery County, which borders Attala County in central Mississippi. Hesterville is a rural community west of Kosciusko, the Attala County seat. Logging and timber-related work is common across many rural parts of the state, though officials did not release information about the specific operation where the collision occurred.
Bell’s office confirmed Taylor’s identity and that he died at the site. No additional findings, including an official cause and manner of death, had been publicly released beyond the report that he was struck by the truck.
Authorities had not announced further investigative results or provided an updated account of the collision as of Wednesday. Key questions about site supervision, the truck’s movement and the events leading to Taylor’s death remained unanswered.
Author note: Last updated July 29, 2026.