ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A community in Rome, Georgia, is reeling after a father and mother died and multiple children were injured in an ATV accident over the Labor Day weekend.

Family and friends identified the ones killed as Marcus Ragland and Ashley Hawkins, both from Rome.

Ragland, 34, was a father of 10. Hawkins was a mother of three, two of whom she shared with Ragland.

“This is just so hard to deal with it. It’s just so hard,” said Felecia Towers, Ragland’s mother. “I’m going to miss him. I loved him. I don’t know what else to say. He was a good boy. He was really fun to be around. He met no strangers. He was friends with everyone.”

Seven children, all siblings, were hurt in the accident, which happened Saturday at the Indian Mountain ATV Park in Piedmont, Alabama, n

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