By Glynis Crawford Smith
Burnet Bulletin
Funeral services will be held today, Thursday, Feb. 15 for a young Burnet man killed in a freak accident at his home.
Justin Battles, 26, a graduate of Burnet High School, died at his home Saturday night, Feb. 10, in an accident that left him pinned between his truck and a wall of home in Bertram.
“He had a little fire pit and he liked to cook out there,” said Bertram police chief J.J. Wilson. “He had music playing in his truck and the theory is that he must have reached in to turn the music off and knocked the standard shift into gear.
“He only had a second to respond to try to get it back out of gear when it began to move forward in first gear and pinned him against the house.”
