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 engineer, was killed by a falling tree branch while hiking the popular Tuolumne Grove trail at Yosemite National Park.

Google software engineer Angela Lin, 29, died during a fatal accident at Yosemite National Park where a large tree branch fell on her.