Rector man dies in jump from vehicle

Friday, January 9, 2009

Clay County Times-Democrat

A Rector man apparently caused his own death when he jumped from a moving vehicle late Thursday afternoon on Highway 139 south of Rector.

According to a Greene County Sheriff's Department report, Jerry Don Keller, 46, was a passenger in a vehicle driven by his ex-wife, Martha Calhoun. The two were traveling from Rector to a basketball game at Lake City when the incident occurred at approximately 5:30 p.m.

According to the report, Calhoun told Dep. Shannon Anthony that she and Keller had been talking when he became upset. At that time, he unlocked the passenger's door and exited the moving vehicle. Greene County Coroner Dick Pace pronounced Keller dead at the scene.

Additional information will appear in the Jan. 14 print edition of the Democrat.

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This is my dad this story is about and i think that the way the story is wrote up is very disrespectful not only to him but 2 his family. i think that it could have been writtin differently.

-- Posted by Kari Keller on Wed, Jan 14, 2009, at 6:28 PM

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