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Man killed while cutting down tree at Fayetteville home ID’d

The man did not live at the home but was helping out a relative who did.

The man did not live at the home but was helping out a relative who did.

By Shaddi Abusaid

March 8, 2019

A Douglasville man was killed Thursday morning when a tree he was chopping down fell on him outside a Fayetteville home, police said.

Timothy Bates, 74, was working with someone else to remove a dead tree from a yard on Braemar Road when the tree split in half, striking him in the head, Fayetteville police spokeswoman Ann Marie Burdett said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Burdett said Bates was helping out a relative who lived at the home when he was killed.

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