Freak act of nature leaves Maywood family stunned

There, says the grandmother, pointing. You follow her finger upthe oak to the 6-foot scar that's still fresh.

"She was taking him out for a walk," she said. "He loved beingoutside."

Dorothy Gunn is talking about her granddaughter Tiffany Gunn,14, and 8-month-old grandson, Darrel. On Wednesday night, she hadheard a hideous cracking noise, "like thunder from a storm," andrushed out to see the two children crushed to death by an enormousbranch.

On Thursday, Gunn and her family, numb from what appeared to bea freak accident, sat staring at the tree that Tiffany and Darrelloved to play under.

"They were always kind of inseparable," she said on the …