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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Isabel Keane

‘Suddenly tree started cracking’: Mom killed seeking relief from sweltering heat at teen daughter’s softball camp

A Pennsylvania mom was killed after being crushed by a falling tree branch during her teenage daughter’s softball tournament.

Gendie Miller, 49, and her husband Bill Miller were watching their daughter, Marlee, 16, play in the Western PA College Showcase softball camp at Renziehausen Park in McKeesport, Pennsylania, Wednesday when several large tree branches suddenly fell from above them. The had moved to sit under a tree in the shade because temperatures reached 90 degrees.

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