Vancouver music teacher killed in fall from horse

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By Associated Press

Summary

A Clark County sheriff's officer says a 57-year-old Battle Ground woman has died of injuries suffered in an apparent fall from a horse.

Story Published: Mar 11, 2010 at 1:06 AM PDT

Story Updated: Mar 11, 2010 at 1:06 AM PDT

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) - A Clark County sheriff's officer says a 57-year-old Battle Ground woman has died of injuries suffered in an apparent fall from a horse.

Sgt. Kevin Allais said deputies were called Wednesday evening to a boarding stable in Hockinson after a horse returned without its rider. A fellow rider went looking for the missing woman and found the body of Candace Morrison about a mile up a gravel road owned by a timber company. Allais says Morrison had not been wearing a riding helmet and suffered head trauma.

An autopsy is pending.

Morrison was a music teacher at Hudson's Bay High School in Vancouver.