Falling tree kills 2-year-old, injures 5-year-old brother in Md.

WASHINGTON — A 2-year-old boy was killed and his 5-year-old brother was seriously injured after a tree fell on them Thursday evening in La Plata, Maryland, according to the Charles County Sheriff’s Office.

It happened shortly after 6 p.m. at a home in the 8900 block of Turkey Hill Road. The boys’ father had been cutting the tree down in their backyard.

The children were reportedly about 50 feet away from their father when it fell.

They were flown to a hospital where the 2-year-old was pronounced dead.

John Domen

John started working at WTOP in 2016 after having grown up in Maryland listening to the station as a child. While he got his on-air start at small stations in Pennsylvania and Delaware, he's spent most of his career in the D.C. area, having been heard on several local stations before coming to WTOP.

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