Boy who died after getting trapped between washer, dryer during hide-and-seek game identified

COOLIDGE, Ga. — Deputies have identified a child who died after getting pinned between a washer and dryer at a south Georgia home as a 8-year-old boy from Texas who was visiting his grandparents.

The Thomas County Sheriff’s Office said they responded to a home in Coolidge, Georgia around 6:16 p.m. on June 10.

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Family members were performing CPR on Wrangler Hendrix after they found him wedged between the washer and dryer at the home. He was taken to a hospital in Thomasville where he was pronounced dead around 7:30 p.m.

The investigation revealed that Hendrix was playing hide-and-seek at his grandparents’ home when the freak accident occurred. The child lived in Jewett, Texas.

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Law enforcement officials believe the cause of death will be positional asphyxia, but the GBI is conducting an autopsy Wednesday afternoon.

According to an obituary placed by the family, Hendrix was in second grade.

“The Thomas County Sheriff’s Office would like to express our deepest condolences to the family of Wrangler,” the sheriff’s office wrote.

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