MCHENRY COUNTY, Ill. — A local county coroner has identified the person who was electrocuted in a farm equipment accident .

McHenry County Coroner Dr. Michael Rein announced that Dante Rico Cruz, who was currently living in Hebron, was the man who was killed after a power line was snapped by a tractor in rural McHenry County on Tuesday.

Dr. Rein says that Cruz was trying to help a farmer that had hit a power line around the 4300 block of Boone McHenry County Line Rd. in Garden Prairie.

It was said that Cruz appeared to have touched the tractor that the wire was also touching at the time when he was electrocuted.

An autopsy will be done on Friday, Oct. 31.

The McHenry County Coroner's Office is working with the McHenry County Sheriff and Boone County Fire Department during the inve

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