Tree Trimmer Killed by Palm Fronds While Working in Bonita ID'd

Palm Trees move with the afternoon wind at Calafia Beach in San Clemente, Calif., on Dec. 8, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

SAN DIEGO—Authorities Feb. 15 released the name of a 39-year-old tree trimmer who was killed when palm fronds collapsed onto him as he was working to remove them from the top of a tall tree in a neighborhood near Chula Vista Golf Course.

Bardomiano Bautista-Perez of Escondido was at the top of the palm tree in the front yard of a home in the 3500 block of Yerba Lane in Bonita when he became trapped and suspended among the cut foliage shortly before 11:30 a.m. on Feb. 13, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office.