Six-year-old boy in Virginia dies after tree falls on home

A six-year-old boy in Virginia was killed after a tree fell through the roof of his mobile home while he slept in his bed.

Anthony Hamilton, six, was in his bunk bed in a mobile home in Chesterfield County, about 20 miles southeast of the state capital of Richmond when the tree fell through the roof at around 2am Friday.

Hamilton was pulled from the home alive, but died Friday afternoon NBC Washington reported.

Hamilton was pulled from the home alive, but died Friday afternoon. The devastation the tree caused can be seen above

The tree can be seen above. Winds were gusting up to 60mph in Virginia Friday

Anthony was on the top bunk of the bunk bed when the tree fell – his siblings, on the bottom bunk, escaped unharmed. Hamilton lived in the trailer with his mother, three siblings, and two roommates.

‘She [Anthony’s mom] got the girls out. She tried to get the tree off of Anthony by herself and she just couldn’t do it,’ Anthony’s grandmother Dawn Summerfield told to WTVR. ‘She’s guilt ridden. She said, ‘I just couldn’t get it off of him, I tried.’ 

Hamilton lived in the mobile home with his mother, three siblings, and his mother’s two roommates

Firefighters had to stabilize the tree and cut the legs off his bed in order to free him

Firefighters reportedly had to stabilize the tree and cut the legs off his bed in order to free him.

‘It’s really scary because her children are about the same age as my kids and they go to the same school as my kids too,’ said neighbor Renee Moore to NBC 12.

Winds were gusting up to 60mph in Virginia Friday. The storm, which affected much of the East Coast of the United States, is known as a ‘bombogenesis’ – these storms, which intensify off the coast, can cause high winds, heavy rain and snow, and dangerous coastal flooding. Weather warnings were in place Friday from Virginia to Massachusetts. 

The tree (above) pinned the young boy to his bed, forcing firefighters to stabilize the tree and cut the legs off his bed to free him

‘She [Anthony’s mom] got the girls out. She tried to get the tree off of Anthony by herself and she just couldn’t do it,’ Anthony’s grandmother Dawn Summerfield told to WTVR . ‘She’s guilt ridden. She said, ‘I just couldn’t get it off of him, I tried’