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.

A 29-year-old Google software engineer was killed in a freak accident at Yosemite National Park this month when a branch from a giant sequoia tree fell and struck her on the head. Angela Lin, who worked as a software engineer for about six years at Salesforce and then Google,

The trails of Tuolumne Grove, a popular site in Yosemite National Park, wind through forests of pine and giant sequoias, the largest trees on earth. On July 19, after hiking about a mile into the grove, Angela Lin, 29, and her friends heard a snapping sound above them.