Brooklyn park-goer struck by falling tree branch has died (EXCLUSIVE)
A Brooklyn park-goer badly hurt when a tree branch fell on him from above has died, a police source said Monday.
Jared Richardson died at Kings County Hospital at 8:38 p.m. Saturday, about 12 hours after he was rushed there from Reinald Salgado Playground near Monroe St. and Patchen Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Richardson was relaxing in the playground, named for a beloved 81st Precinct cop who died of leukemia in 1997, when a tree branch fell from about 40 feet above and hit him in the head.
The Parks Department said the “failed limb” was from a London planetree and measured 28 inches in diameter. A Parks forestry expert found the tree to be in good condition when it was last inspected in August 2020, a Parks spokesperson said. The tree was last pruned in July 2020.
Richardson lived at Our Lady of Good Counsel, a single room occupancy across from the park, according to police sources.
