Trick-Or-Treater Killed Halloween Night When Rotted Tree Falls On Him

PELHAM, New Hampshire – No crime here, just a tragedy. 10-year-old Christian Gualtieri was killed while out trick-or-treating with his dad and friends on SaturdaySaturday reviews night. He had just left a residence and was heading towards another house when the freak accident occurred. As he was navigating around a parked car,  a rotted birch tree snapped and fell on him. “(It’s) just a freak accident. The wind was going pretty well and it appears the wind knocked down a rotted tree and just went down on the boy,” Pelham police Lt. Gary Fisher said. Christian went into cardiac arrest and was taken to Saints Memorial Medical Center in Lowell, Mass., where he died a short time later. The video report states the fourth-grader did not regain consciousness after being struck – so if there is any good to come out of such a tragic story, it is that he did not suffer. As for the surviving friends and family, I’m sure that will not be the case.  [Read more...]