Sad news ~ Steven Curtis Chapman

Terrible news coming from Tennessee today. I've been keeping up to date with Steven Curtis Chapman's blog these past months, so to hear tragic news in his family is really saddening - more so to following his family news these past months...

Singing star's son runs over daughter

The five-year-old daughter of American Christian music star Steven Curtis Chapman has been struck and killed by a sport-utility vehicle driven by her brother.

Authorities in Tennessee say the girl, Maria, was hit in a driveway at the family home today south of Nashville and died later in hospital.

The Toyota Land Cruiser was driven by the girl's teenage brother, said Tennessee
Highway Patrol spokeswoman Laura McPherson.

McPherson says several members of the Chapman family witnessed the accident.
The brother apparently did not see the little girl, she said.

Chapman won his 50th Dove music award, the most of any artist in gospel music history, in 2006 for special event album of the year for the Chronicles of Narnia project.

He toured Australia in 2006.

McPherson said no charges were expected to be laid, "It looks like a tragic accident,'' she said...

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/05/22/1211182968194.html