Police have identified the man who was killed Thursday afternoon when a large tree branch fell on a Country Club home and caused the chimney to collapse.
The Lincoln Police Department said 59-year-old Kevin Clements died when the chimney fell through the house after being struck by the tree branch.
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Debris fell on Clements, who was inside, Lincoln Fire and Rescue Assistant Chief Michael Smith said Thursday. Clements was pronounced dead at the scene.
Emergency crews responded to the 2700 block of Manse Avenue around 1:10 p.m.
On Friday, Mike Murman choked up when talking about Clements, with whom he worked for several years.
Murman, who founded Pen-Link, hired Clements in the late 1980s when the company, which provides communications, surveillance and other software for law enforcement and military customers, was just getting started.
By the time Murman retired and left the company in 2013, Clements was a vice president and one of the company’s top executives.
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On Friday, he recalled Clements excelling at marketing and drafting proposals for many of the government contracts the company seeks, as well as being a very hard worker.
“He liked to be in the office all night if that was necessary,” Murman said.
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The two didn’t communicate much outside of work, but Clements reached out to Murman earlier this year when he retired from the company and invited him to a retirement party.
That party never happened because of the spike in COVID-19 cases at the time, but Murman said he was able to see Clements a few weeks ago at Pen-Link’s 35th anniversary celebration.
“Looking back, it was something special,” he said.
Clements was also active in the trapper community and served on committees in the Isaac Walton League of Lincoln.
Murman said the accident that killed Clements was an event that “just shows people that you have to live every day like it’s your last.”
Crews from LPD, Lincoln Electric System and members of the Nebraska Task Force One Urban Search and Rescue team assisted at the scene.
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