WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – A Winter Haven woman known for her routine of feeding neighborhood horses was found dead Thursday afternoon in what Winter Haven authorities are calling a heartbreaking accident.
According to investigators, around 1:50 p.m., a 911 caller reported seeing a person lying motionless in a field adjacent to the Lucerne Lakeside Mobile Home Park on Lucerne Park Road. When Winter Haven police officers arrived at the scene, they discovered an elderly woman unresponsive on the ground with two horses nearby.
Officers had to scale the perimeter fence to reach her, immediately beginning life-saving efforts before Polk County EMS and fire personnel arrived to take over medical care…