Case died of injuries sustained in a vehicular accident at Glenwood Regional Medical Center in West Monroe. Case pulled his Lexus sports utility vehicle from Regency Place onto North Seventh Street and into the path of a northbound GMC pickup truck driven by Nicholas Ross, who was towing a stump grinder and attempted to swerve out of Case's path, but he struck the driver's side of the Lexus. Mrs. Case, the former Frances Clinton (born June 6, 1935), sustained moderate injuries. Ross was uninjured.<ref name=mns>"Former newsman dies in fatal wreck," ''The Monroe News-Star'', May 11, 2007. Archived from the original on February 3, 2015. Retrieved February 2, 2015.</ref>
Services were held on May 15, 2007, at Grace [[Episcopal Church]] in Monroe. Interment was at Hill Crest Memorial Park in Haughton in near [[Bossier Parish City]] in northwestern Louisiana. In addition to his wife, Case was survived by six children, Mike Case of [[Carson City]], [[Nevada]]; Connie Case Barton and husband Jerry of Studio City, [[California]]; Cindy Case of Golden, [[Colorado]], Craig Case and wife Tami of Bluffton, [[South Carolina]], Barry Case and wife Stella of Elizabeth, Colorado, and Susan Case Liggin and husband Samuel, Sr., of West Monroe. He also had a surviving sister, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.<ref name=obit/>
Roy Frostenson, a spokesman for KNOE, described Case as a familiar face to area viewers and "one of the mainstays of the early years at KNOE," begun by its namesake, the late Louisiana Governor James Albert Noe, Sr.<ref name=mns/>