The Daily Times reports that an eight-year-old Blount County, Tennessee boy, who loved more than anything spending time with his identical twin, lost his fight for life at 6:31 a.m. Monday after contracting E. coli and suffering the after-effects of the disease.???.

??????Joseph Coning, 8 (right), and his twin, Jesse, were looking forward to a family vacation on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. …

The family does not know where Joseph contracted E. coli and an autopsy will be done to try and find answers.