Boy was volunteering when he died at haunted hayride [Video]

ST AUGUSTA, Minn. — Alexander “Xander” Mick, the 13-year-old boy who died on Oct. 12 at a haunted hayride, was volunteering when the deadly incident occurred, officials say.

The Stearns County Sheriff’s Office said Mick was a volunteer at the Harvest of Horror Haunted Hayride in St. Augusta when he was run over by a trolley wagon being pulled by a tractor. According to a press release, Mick’s job at the hayride was to frighten the riders being pulled through the cornfield area.

Nobody witnessed the incident, but deputies say that the initial investigation indicates that it was an accident.

Officials say staff and bystanders, including an off-duty police officer and an off-duty medic, immediately started to render aid, but Mick was pronounced dead at the scene. 

The obituarydescribed Mick as an active eighth-grader at Sauk Rapids-Rice Middle School who was involved …