GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) – A Celebration of Life is being held in Gainesville on Wednesday for two Citrus County teen best friends who died in a freak accident.
According to Columbia County Sheriff’s deputies, George Watts, 14, and Derrick Hubbard, 14, were digging a hole in a sandpit on Sunday near Sportsman’s Park in Inverness when it suddenly collapsed on them.
Upon arriving at the scene, Hubbard’s mother found the teens’ shoes and bikes outside the sandpit before they started calling for help and law enforcement…