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Indie Rock Band Member Falls To Death In Williamsburg Elevator Shaft

In a fall accident reported throughout the New York Indie rock music world, !!! drummer Jerry Fuchs was killed in an apartment building elevator shaft on Sunday morning, Novemeber 8.

The New York Post reported that the drummer, who worked with !!!, Maserati, Vineland, Tuning machine, and Juan MacLean, was attending a fund-raiser in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, at the time of the fatal fall accident. The 34-year-old musician was in an elevator with a friend when it became stuck near the fifth floor. Both men decided to try jumping four feet from the lift to the floor’s elevator opening. The friend jumped successfully, but Fuchs’ clothing became caught and the man fell into the space between the elevator and the fifth floor. The friend, 24-year-old Stephen Alessi, said that Fuchs successfully made the jump, but that the man’s hoodie became caught on the elevator, causing him to lose his balance and fall backwards.

After falling more than 50 feet, friends found him at the bottom of the elevator shaft, where he was breathing but not able to speak or respond. Emergency workers rushed the man to Bellevue Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3:30 on Sunday. A lawyer for the building’s owner, Mona Gora, said that the freight elevator was not manned after hours and said that whoever was operating the elevator at one in the morning was not trained. Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri said that the elevator was not defective.

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