ATWOOD - An Atwood man died Tuesday after his car fell on him as he was repairing it.
According to a report from the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department, deputy Jeff Howie responded to a dispatch call at 6:47 p.m. that a car had fallen on top of a male subject and the man possibly had been under the car for two hours.
In his report, Howie stated when he arrived on scene at 115 E. Main St., Atwood, paramedics were doing CPR on Gerald Marvin Gibbs, 63.
Gibbs was transported by Multi-Township EMS to Kosciusko Community Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Police reports state Gibbs' granddaughter, Jaimelee Gibbs, said she and her grandmother, Joanne Gibbs, hadn't heard from Gerald for a couple of hours.
When they went to the garage, the reports state they saw him under the car he was working on and that the vehicle rolled off the car ramps.
They were advised by 911 after they called not to move the car.
