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Man, 69, dies in Cass Co. farming accident

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SILVER CREEK TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A man is dead following a farming accident Saturday evening.

Deputies say it happened at a farm on Dixon Street in Cass County just before 6 p.m.

The victim has been identified as 69-year-old Roger Molter of Benton Harbor.

Deputies say Harbor was parking a cherry picker in his barn for the winter when somehow he got pinned between the cherry picker and a wall.

Molter died from his injuries. No one else was injured in the incident.