A 12-year-old boy died Monday after being electrocuted when he touched a fence that had been electrified by a live wire at a Fleming Athletic Complex ball field near the Bernie Ward Community Center. 
 
 Melquan Kwame Robinson, of the 3400 block of Applejack Terrace, was at football practice at the Lumpkin Road complex when he went over a chain-link fence, according to Richmond County Coroner Mark Bowen. 
 
 A live wire was reportedly touching the fence, and when Melquan grabbed the fence, he was electrocuted, Bowen said. Three other people were also injured in the incident. 
 
 Melquan was taken to the Children's Hospital of Georgia where he was pronounced dead at 9:56 p.m. His body will be taken to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation lab for an autopsy Tuesday. 
 
 Don Clark, a Robinson family friend and Melquan's former coach, said the child's parents are trying to go through the grieving process. Melquan was their firstborn and one of three children. 
 
 "They're definitely upset over the fact of how could this happen, with the fact that there were so many children," Clark said. "You can play the what ifs in many different scenarios and it will never get any better. The fact that this situation happened with so many kids out here, it's heartbreaking." 
 
 Clark said Melquan was very protective of his siblings and loved his family, which makes the situation that much tougher. Clark feels that it might be hard for his siblings to deal with the loss of their brother because of how young they are. 
 
 According to a statement from the city of Augusta, which owns and operates the community center and athletic complex, three other people were injured in the accident. Two were juveniles and the other was an adult, according to the Richmond County Sheriff's Office. 
 
 "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of all involved in this accident," Mayor Hardie Davis said in a statement. "We ask Augustans to stand together to extend our condolences and embrace the family of Melquan Kwame Robinson with love during this sudden and unexpected loss." 
 
 Clark praised the courage shown by the two other children who were injured trying to save their friend. Their conditions were not available Tuesday night. 
 
 "The friends, the way they responded, what motivates a young boy that young to jump into action and help their friend out," Clark said. "Those are the two young boys that are in the hospital right now because they were trying to help out a friend." 
 
 Clark said he will remember Melquan's smile. Melquan was energetic, very athletic and very passionate about playing football and sports, according to Clark. He said Melquan wanted to be a professional athlete when he grew up. 
 
 Melquan was a member of the Trinity Elite Titans football team, which issued a statement on Facebook: "Good morning everyone, this is a sad moment for our Trinity Elite Titans family......we are still in disbelief. We are sending our prayers and love out to the family of our football player, #MelquanKwameRobinson#, who has gone to rest with the Lord. One solider gone too soon.........you will be truly missed!!!!" 
 
 Although the family is grieving, Clark wanted to remind people that this is affecting friends, teammates and coaches of Melquan. He hopes the city and the community are able to come together for the family and friends. 
 
 "This is exactly one of those tests, that as a city and a community, we all need to stand up and move forward toward the challenge," Clark said. 
 
 According to a sheriff's office report, a deputy who responded to the scene performed chest compression on Melquan about 9 p.m. Another deputy stated in the report that he was told the child had been electrocuted by the outfield fence. After a few rounds of chest compressions, Melquan coughed and was turned to his left side. A deputy checked his pulse but none was found, and chest compressions were continued, the report states. 
 
 A Gold Cross ambulance unit arrived about 9:16 p.m. and loaded Melquan onto a stretcher. Another ambulance arrived to transport a second victim, according to the incident report, which stated that the child was with Melquan and was injured when he tried to pull his friend down from the fence. 
 
 A third victim told deputies that he and Melquan were throwing a football and it went over the fence. Melquan climbed the fence to get the ball and when he came back over, he was electrocuted, the incident report states. He tried to pull Melquan from the fence and he too was injured, according to the incident report. 
 
 Bowen said his office, the sheriff's office and the city will each conduct investigations. Bowen will primarily focus on the death, while the city will look into how the live electrical wire happened. 
 
 Georgia Power released a statement saying it will work with local officials as they conduct the investigation. 
 
 "Georgia Power's condolences and sympathies are with the individuals and their families following last night's tragic event at Fleming Athletic Complex," the statement says. "Our preliminary investigation indicates that Georgia Power does not control or maintain the voltage that energized the fences at the complex." 
 
 Melquan was a seventh-grader at Morgan Road Middle School, according to Kaden Jacobs, the Richmond County school system's director of communications. 
 
 "Our thoughts are with the family during this difficult time," Jacobs said. "We have provided additional support to Morgan Road Middle School for students and staff." 
 
 All football activities have been canceled for the rest of the week at Fleming Park, according to a spokesperson for the complex. 
 
 Clark said more details will be provided in the future on how the community can help. 
 
 "We lost a future leader," he said. "We lost a future athlete. We lost a child in our city." 
 
 A vigil will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday at Bernie Ward Community Center. 
 
 Staff writers Amanda King and David Lee contributed to this article. ||||| Tuesday, October 16, 2018 
 
 (News 12 at 11) 
 
 AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Multiple investigations begin after a 12-year-old boy is electrocuted at a local park and two other boys who tried to help him are still recovering from their injuries. 
 
 The mom of David Sette, one of the boys who tried to help, said her son is doing better. He was moved from ICU to a regular room at The Children's Hospital, but she says doctors have some concerns with his blood levels involving muscle breakdown, which can lead to future problems. We haven't yet heard a condition update of the other friend who jumped in to help. 
 
 It was a freak accident that turned tragic for three families. Deputies say 12-year-old Melquan Robinson climbed over the fence at Fleming Park to get a football. The incident report says, "When Robinson went to come back over the fence, he was electrocuted." 
 
 "He had the grit and motivation to get up and keep going," said Melquan’s former football coach, Don Clark. 
 
 Deputies say Melquan had no pulse. They tried to revive him, but couldn't. 
 
 "If my child was the one that didn't make it, I think I would just be devastated. I wouldn't have words," Whitney Winston said. 
 
 Two of Melquan's friends ran to help. Both boys were shocked too, taken to the hospital, but survived. 
 
 "The fact that this happened with so many kids out here it's just. It's heartbreaking," Clark said. 
 
 Parents hit especially hard knowing this could have been their child. 
 
 "I was out here for my son's football game," Winston said. 
 
 Whitney Winston's 6-year-old son was playing a football game right before it happened. It's her son's first year playing here, and now possibly his last. 
 
 "Worried, cause I don't know if we'll stay playing football," Winston said. 
 
 Tonight, she's holding onto her son a little tighter and sending her prayers to all those mourning the loss of this 12-year-old boy. 
 
 "I wish well to the parents. I send out my thoughts and prayers and strength, and to the boys," Winston said. "And that mother that has one less child." 
 
 
 
 Tuesday, October 16, 2018 
 
 (News 12 First at 5 / News 12 at 6 O’Clock / NBC 26 at 7) 
 
 AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Two young boys are recovering in the hospital while one family mourns the loss of a son. 12-year-old Melquan Robinson was killed Monday when he tried to jump over a chain link fence that was charged by an underground electrical wire. 
 
 It happened during football practice at Fleming Park, owned by the city. 
 
 There’s absolutely more than one victim in this tragic accident, as parents and teammates watched in horror. Two young boys jumped into action to help pull Melquan from the fence. 
 
 News 12 had the chance to speak with Melquan’s former football coach Tuesday afternoon. He’s been chosen as a spokesperson for the Robinson family as they grieve. He says heartbreak has hit the young band of brothers. 
 
 “The fact that this happened with so many kids out here, it’s just heartbreaking,” Don Clark was able to hold his emotions while he spoke to us Tuesday. 
 
 Melquan died a short time after he was brought to a local hospital. Clark says the family is sick over their loss. 
 
 "[Monday] this mother went to bed, or woke up with her son still walking around living, and [Monday] she realized she lost her first born. It's not an easy thing." 
 
 He says the family is too hurt to even speak. 
 
 "This just happened yesterday. They are barely even able to determine what’s what." 
 
 Melquan's former coach is saying what his parents can't. 
 
 “This young man was where he needed to be. He was doing what he loved. He was doing what was tied to his passions.” 
 
 Clark tells us the city is suffering the loss of a future leader, athlete and an overall amazing child. 
 
 Melquan's family is holding a vigil Thursday at 6:00 at Bernie Ward Community Center. They are opening it up to the entire community. 
 
 
 

– A 12-year-old was killed and two other boys were injured after a chain link fence electrified by a live underground wire electrocuted them at a city park in Georgia. During football practice at Fleming park in Augusta on Monday, Melquan Robinson hopped a fence to retrieve a ball, WRDW reports, citing the incident report that says when he "went to come back over the fence, he was electrocuted." The seventh-grader was pronounced dead later at Children's Hospital of Georgia, according to the Augusta Chronicle. Two other boys who tried to help their friend were injured and hospitalized, according to reports. The mother of one of them, David Sette, tells WRDW that her son is improving. Per the Chronicle, an adult also was injured in the incident. "We lost a future leader. We lost a future athlete. We lost a child in our city," Melquan's former coach, acting as a spokesman for the bereaved family, tells the Chronicle. The oldest of three children, Melquan loved his family and was very protective of his siblings, he says. Multiple investigations into the incident are reportedly underway, with city officials looking into how the fence became electrified. Georgia Power, offering "condolences and sympathy," said in a statement that the utility "does not control or maintain the voltage" that caused the electrocution. Melquan's family will hold a vigil Thursday at the Bernie Ward Community Center. "This young man was where he needed to be," his former coach says, per WRDW. "He was doing what he loved." (A medieval re-enactor was impaled in a freak accident.)