Killing of Don Henry and Kevin Ives

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Around 4:30 a.m. on August 23, 1987, 16-year-old Don Henry and 17-year-old Kevin Ives were hit by a Union Pacific freight train in the town of Alexander, Arkansas, United States, as they were lying on the tracks. The locomotive engineer engaged the brakes while blowing the horn, but the train could not stop in time and rolled over the boys. Members of the locomotive crew stated that the bodies were partly covered by a tarpaulin and were motionless. The deaths were initially ruled an accident, but further investigation and conflicting evidence led a grand jury to rule the deaths "probable homicides". Popular speculation on the facts of the case has produced media coverage and allegations of wrongdoing by several government agencies.

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