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Henrico Police identify man killed when tree fell on his truck

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Henrico Police have identified the 42-year-old man who was killed Sunday afternoon when an oak tree fell on his pickup truck during a storm as Peter Lottman of Henrico.

Officers responded to the 800 block of Maybeury Drive in Henrico at about 4:48 p.m. for the report of a fallen tree that had crashed onto a pickup truck. When they arrived, they found Lottman dead in the cab of the pickup truck, police said in a news release.

A preliminary investigation revealed that Lottman was traveling north on Maybeury Drive when the 50-foot-tall tree, about eight feet in circumference, fell across the road onto the truck, police said.

Anyone with additional information about the crash is asked to call Henrico Police Officer R. Hostetler at (804) 501-5000 or submit an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000 or through p3tips.com.