MOORE, Okla. — A mother and her 3-month-old son were among the dead yesterday as rescue workers sifted through the rubble in Moore, Okla., hoping to find survivors.
The desperate search took place one day after a devastating twister flattened the suburb just south of Oklahoma City.
The body of Megan Billingsley Futrell, 29, was found along with that of her baby boy, Case, in a destroyed 7-Eleven, where they had taken cover as the massive tornado churned through town.
Futrell had just picked the baby up from his sitter and was trying to make it back home to her husband and their 7-year-old son, Kanon.
“He told her you need to take cover or get on the highway and go north,” her aunt Tracy Pulliam told The Post.
“She didn’t have time so she pulled into the 7-Eleven. That’s all we know.”
Three of the seven children who drowned in the basement of Plaza Towers Elementary were identified yesterday as Janae Hornsby, 9, Kyle Davis, 8, and Nicholas Scott McCabe, 9.
Charles Webb, Nicholas’ older brother, told The Post yesterday that rescue workers informed him that the body of his sibling had been found in the school huddled with another child.
Little Janae Hornsby’s grandmother told KOCO-TV that she had been notified yesterday morning that her granddaughter’s body was at the Medical Examiner’s Office.
Kyle Davis’ mother told the Daily Mail that she originally believed her son was safe when she was mistakenly informed that the school had not been damaged by the tornado.
She later learned the tragic news that her son had been hit by a beam in the school corridor.Additional reporting by Marion Gooding