The 46-year-old man died at 6:15 a.m. Wednesday, according to John Nelson, director of public and community affairs at Vassar Brothers Medical Center.
The man, whose name was not released, was the second man fatally struck in City of Poughkeepsie's Mansion Square Park that Friday afternoon. A 50-year-old man died early the following day.
Three other lightning strike victims, Alexander Carr, Karen Brooks and an unnamed 46-year-old man, were treated at local hospitals following the strike and released.
Lightning struck a tree, traveling down it and into the ground, shocking five victims on or near a bench, one of whom died. Police have not released the names of the victims.
Alexander Carr, a 55-year-old homeless man, said he was leaving the park as the storm approached, but came back to the bench in the City of Poughkeepsie park to retrieve his backpack and to make sure all his belongings were there.
"I couldn't move my arm. My leg was totally shot, too. There was a man passing by. He came over and picked me up and put me on the sidewalk. And I was too scared to be on the sidewalk. I rolled myself over to the grass," Carr said.
Carr spent three days in the trauma center at MidHudson Regional Hospital of Westchester Medical Center. The strike left a burn mark across his back. A day after being released from the hospital, he was using a cane to walk due to his injured leg.
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