A 29-year-old Google software engineer was killed hiking in Yosemite National Park when a branch from a giant sequoia tree fell and hit her on the head. Angela Lin, an engineer at Salesforce and then Google, was hiking on July 19 with her boyfriend and two friends through Tuolumne Grove, a paved trail lined with massive sequoias.

Angela Lin, a 29-year-old Google software engineer, died after she was hit on the head by a falling tree branch at Yosemite National Park on Saturday, July 19, while hiking with her boyfriend and two friends.

The fatal incident occurred while Angela Lin was admiring large sequoias along a trail in the park with her boyfriend and two friends.