STANLEY, N.C. (AP) – Authorities in Gaston County say a 35-year-old man was killed when a tree he was cutting down landed on top of him after it fell into a second tree.
Gaston County Police Sgt. Myron Shelor said Michael Scott Wyatt was in Stanley cutting down a large tree on an embankment Friday around 9:15 a.m. They said that tree fell into another one, and the momentum of that fall caused the first tree to swing back and strike Wyatt and pin him underneath it.
