“How do you go home on Christmas Eve and tell your kids that their grandpa is dead? I still can’t find the words,” the man’s daughter-in-law said
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- A 61-year-old man, identified as grandfather Roberto Luis, died on Wednesday, Dec. 24 after a large tree branch split off and fell on him near his San Diego home
- San Diego Fire-Rescue said the man had “gone into cardiac arrest” when they arrived and first responders did “everything they could” but the “tree was too heavy”
- This comes amid severe weather conditions in California, which has prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency in southern California counties
A man who was killed on Christmas Eve in San Diego as severe weather rolled through the area has been identified.
Roberto Luis, a 61-year-old grandfather, died on Wednesday, Dec. 24, after a large tree branch split off and fell on him near his San Diego home, KCRG reported, citing San Diego Fire-Rescue.
“The first tree branch fell. It struck him, knocking him unconscious,” Fire-Rescue Battalion Chief Craig Newell told the outlet of Luis’ death…