New York worker Leighton Brown picking up extra shift killed by falling tree amid powerful nor'easter
Leighton Brown was a maintenance supervisor. He was walking by a massive tree on Saturday afternoon around 3:30 when part of it fell and hit and killed the 56-year-old.
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