Police identify 3 dead, 2 injured from carbon monoxide poisoning at Michigan’s Faster Horses Festival

TOWNSHIP OF WOODSTOCK, Michigan. – Police identified the three people killed and the other two in critical condition due to carbon monoxide poisoning at Michigan’s Faster Horses Festival.

According to the Lenawee County Sheriff’s Office, Dawson Brown, 20, of Michigan Center; Kole Sova, 19, of Jackson; and William Mays II, 20, of Jackson; were killed on Saturday (July 17) by exposure to carbon monoxide inside the festival campground.

MPs said they were called at 13:27 on Saturday about five people who were found unconscious at the campground, located near the corner of US-12 and the Brooklyn Freeway.

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Upon arrival, authorities said they found five men inside a trailer. MPs performed CPR, but three of the men died at the scene, police said.

Investigators said they suspected the men had been exposed to carbon monoxide from a generator. Lenawee County officials confirmed the deaths were due to carbon monoxide poisoning on Monday.

The other two men exposed to carbon monoxide were identified as Rayfield Johnson, 20, of Jackson; and Kurtis Stitt, 20, of Hesperia, Michigan. They are in critical condition, according to the Lenawee County Sheriff’s Office.

Police say the carbon monoxide incident is unrelated to the passing of Melissa Donna Havens, 30, of Croswell, Michigan. State Police said Havens was found at the festival around 7:30 a.m. Saturday, but the cause of her death is not known. The soldiers are looking for a man who was with Havens within 24 hours of his body being found.