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A Week After Being Impaled By Tree, Littleton Man Is Home

"The last three days have been tear-filled, emotional, the hugs from all family," Erich Newman said.

A father and daughter were impaled by a tree outside their relative's house on South Quitman Street in southwest Denver.
A father and daughter were impaled by a tree outside their relative's house on South Quitman Street in southwest Denver. (Image via CBS)

LITTLETON, Colo. (CBS4) – A Littleton man is back home and healing just a week after he and his daughter were impaled by a fallen tree. The incident happened on South Quitman Street in southwest Denver during last Saturday’s rare, derecho.

On that day, 9-year-old Kaitlyn Newman was stitched up and sent home, but her father, Erich Newman, stayed at Denver Health for further treatment. Newman was released from the hospital Thursday evening.

Read the full story at CBS Denver.

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