Authorities have identified the mother and son killed in the powerful tornado that struck near Keithville yesterday. The Caddo Parish coroner’s office says thirty-year-old Yoshiko Smith and eight-year-old Nikolus Little were killed when the storm stuck around 5 pm.
Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator says their husband and father was at work when the storm stuck and he came home to try to find them.
“ When I first got to the command post at about 6 o’clock right after it struck he was the first person I talked to and he couldn’t get down the road to check on his family, reported them missing,” Prator said.
Prator said he sent about 20 deputies to go look for the house, but they couldn’t find it.
“We had to go back and actually get the man and show us where the house was and the house was gone, was the reason we couldn’t find it,” Prator said and added the search was difficult and took a long time because of the amount of damage in the neighborhood.
“ At ten-thirty we found the child deceased in the woods, and uh, about 2:30 in the morning we found the mother about 200 yards away from where the home used to be so it was a horrible situation,” Prator said.
Authorities have not yet released the father and husband’s identity. Prator said there was one serious injury reported, four homes destroyed, and at least twenty others damaged.
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