A large tree toppled onto a mobile home in Hall County, killing a man who was asleep inside.
It happened around 4:45 a.m. Wednesday at a mobile home park along Athens Highway southeast of Gainesville.
Henry Geovanny Mendez Aguilar, 20, was lying in bed when the tree crashed into the home, demolishing half of it.
Sara Perry, who lives next door, was awakened by what she described as “a really loud bang.”
“It shook my whole trailer, it really did,” she said. “And my whole house went black.”
She heard a man screaming.
“And all you hear is him just scream for help,” she said. “It was really traumatic to hear someone scream for help like that.”
That man was Aguilar’s uncle, Eric Mendez.
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