12-Year-Old Boy Trapped in Collapsed Bedroom After Tree Falls on Wren Court Home in Prince George’s County
Andrew Carter saw the tree start to fall. He did not freeze. He ran straight up to his son’s bedroom.
What he found was something no parent should ever face. The roof had come down. A ceiling beam had his 12-year-old pinned to the bed. And no matter how hard Carter tried to lift it, the weight would not move.
This happened at 12:04 a.m. on September 4, 2026, on Wren Court in Kettering, Maryland.
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