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A Molino man is dead after being hit by lighting Tuesday night.

Friends say his extended family is yet to be notified so WEAR is choosing not to release his identity yet. Emergency crews say he was in his 40s and people who know him say he was a newlywed.

He was also a long-time member of Hillcrest Church.

The incident happened outside a home on Wilder Road.

You could see pieces of a wooden post of the home's carport laying along the its front yard. Friends say that was where the man was standing, either walking to or from his car.

Neighbor Don Dixon said the storms rolled through before 6 p.m. He said it moved through quickly, but there was one strike he heard that seemed louder and closer than the rest.

"We thought the lightning bolt hit in the creek, which is only about 200 feet from where we live," Dixon said. "We're used to lighting strikes all the time, but in December it's very rare and we were just caught off guard. It's just such a tragedy next door."