A 16-year old Naperville boy died Monday after a 2,000 pound tree limb landed on him and another teenager.
Kyle Zuleg was a junior at Neuqua Valley High School. He was playing a game of flashlight tag with a 13-year old boy in Messenger Woods in Will County around 8 p.m. Saturday night when the limb split and fell about 40 feet to the ground. Both boys were pinned under the tree when emergency officials arrived. They were taken to a Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, but later transferred, according to the Chicago Tribune.
"It was such a tragic, freak accident," said Marcy DeMauro, executive director of the Will County Forest Preserve District to the Chicago Tribune.
Zuleg died from his injuries Monday. A family friend told the Chicago Tribune his organs will be donated.
The 13-year old remains in the hospital. He is expected to recover.
Both boys were with a group of families on an annual camping trip in Messenger Woods when the accident happened.
Earlier this year a tree branch fell on a car on the northwest side, nearly killing the driver.
