According to the New York Post, their daughter Marlee was participating in the Western PA College Showcase softball camp, which was a significant occasion attended by college coaches.

Like many of the other parents there, they had sought solace in the shade when the temperatures reached the nineties.

Bill heard a cracking noise above at around 7:00 p.m.

“I said to my wife, ‘Let’s go.’ I jumped out of my chair, felt a small branch of some sort that grazed my leg. And I immediately turned to my right to look back at her, and she was face down with large, multiple branches and limbs,” Bill told WTAE.

A number of branches, some as thick as 10 to 12 inches, had abruptly broken