Boy Killed By Dad’s Plow: Father Accidentally Runs Over 6-Year-Old Son While Plowing Snow

A boy was killed by his dad’s plow in Maine, Wednesday, when his father was finishing plowing snow from Tuesday’s storm out in his driveway on Quaker Ridge Road in the city of Greene. The father was backing up when the boy was killed by the plow.

The 6-year-old Nathan Capponi was pronounced dead at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston after being hit by his father’s plow truck around 6:45 am. Steve McCausland, state police spokesman, shared the news to Dennis Hoey of Maine Today.

Police said that the boy being killed by his dad’s plow was due to the fact that the father didn’t see his son playing in the driveway with his scooter. Asked for comments about the incident, members of the Capponi family were unprepared to give a statement.

People at the nearby Circle K convenience store and gas station, a local gathering spot, expressed their sorrow and disbelief at the accidental death of the boy.

News of the event spread quickly, according to Circle K employees Melissa Carmichael and Ben McGray, as one customer after another talked about the pain that the boy’s father must be experiencing.

“I can’t imagine what he’s going through,” says Carmichael. McGray, whose mother once baby-sat Kevin Capponi, says, “It must be horrible.”

The father, who graduated from Lewiston High School in 1996, posted a message on his Facebook page saying, “Please forgive me and my family. I love him with all my heart. It is now broken.” It’s a short statement filled with great anguish for the sad event. Not long after, responses filled his Facebook page with words of comfort and prayers from friends and family, Wednesday night.

Quaker Ridge Road is a long and narrow county road that connects with Route 202 and Greene, Maine. Homes are set far apart, many surrounded by trees, and are back from the road.

The Capponi’s residence is a white split-level home with a barn, which appears well maintained. Their driveway is about 100 feet long.

One of the Capponi’s neighbors, Nicole Beachesne, said about the incident, “I’m not sure how I feel. I guess I am in shock, but I feel really bad for the parents.”

Beachesne’s 14-year-old daughter waited for the school bus at the same bus stop where Nathan Capponi, the boy that was killed by his dad’s plow, also waited. According to Beachesne, her daughter didn’t know the young boy well, but said he was a good kid.

Kim Spencer, assistant principal at Greene Central School, where Nathan Capponi attended, said the school would issue a statement Thursday responding to the boy’s death.