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A recent college graduate who d just started his first job at a California COVID-19 testing facility was struck and killed by a falling tree in an incident family members said has left them heartbroken.
Kahlil Gay, 23, graduated from Cal State East Bay in December, and was just three days into his career at Color, a health tech company that conducts COVID testing, when tragedy struck, according KABC. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
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Gay was walking with a co-worker on Color s Burlingame campus around 4 p.m. on Feb. 26 when a tree fell during a windstorm, KPIX reported. His aunt Nadira Gay said he was killed instantly.
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At just 23 years old, Kahlil Gay of Corona was just starting out, but now he s gone. The young grad was killed by a fallen tree in Northern California just three days into his new job.
Having just graduated from college, he had a promising future. He had just begun working at Color, a Bay Area company that conducts COVID-19 testing and his family could not have been more proud. He was very excited, and we talked about the benefits and what he was going to be doing in the lab, and he was very excited because it was for sure going to be for a good cause, said Darrl Gay, Kahlil s brother.