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Man dies at school after being electrocuted

By Scott Harvey

Greenville – A contractor for Greenville High School is killed after being electrocuted while working in a crawl space.

22-year-old James Leo Banks, of Crowley, was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy has been ordered.

He was discovered by an official at the school and authorities were immediately dispatched.

Banks was employed by Lighting Technology, a sub-contractor for DMI, a company that has been doing work at the high school for the past several weeks.