Child dies from injuries in car wreck

DEXTER -- A 5-year-old from Mississippi County died Thursday of injuries sustained in an automobile accident earlier this week.

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Shawn M. Lorenz of East Prairie was pronounced dead at 1:55 p.m. Thursday at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

On Sunday at 11:55 p.m. Shawn was traveling with his mother, Lois A. Reed, 28, of East Prairie on U.S. Highway 60, two miles west of Dexter, when Reed ran her vehicle off the roadway. The vehicle struck an embankment and overturned, partially ejecting Shawn, the Patrol reports.

Reed received minor injuries and was taken by ambulance to Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter.