Officials are learning more about what happened in the hours and moments before a man fell to his death after reportedly trying to do a flip on a Citi Field balcony during the Dead & Company concert in New York City last Friday night.
The man — who was previously identified in our earlier report as 46-year-old Ian Crystal — was said in order to have been seen by witnesses falling several stories from an elevated concourse at the ballpark down to be able to the concrete below in the middle of the show. He was pronounced dead hours later at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Queens.
Now, according to police sources who spoke further about the particular incident to the New York Post this week, it turns out that Crystal reportedly took acid before his fatal fall.
Observers at typically the concert have also claimed that Crystal — who was the CEO and co-founder of NYC-based company Evolution Spirits — was allegedly both drinking alcohol and smoking weed in the hours before he fell roughly between 30 and 50 feet after accidentally “ backflipping” over the balcony.
It’ s unclear how this police sources came across that acid information at this point — whether it was perhaps leaked from an autopsy report or discovered otherwise. For exactly what it’ s worth, other bystanders (including one below) noted often the smell of alcohol in your vicinity, at least, but have made no references to drugs.
One fan recalled the exact horrifying scene to The particular Post , saying (below):
“ I heard people going ‘ahhh’ and see people running. I said ‘bro, someone took a f**king header. ‘”
Jeez…
Drug allegations aside, the very broad details of the story — the accidental “ backflipping” in particular — continue to match up with what we learned earlier this week after details of the tragedy were first released days ago.
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You’ ll recall that at the time of our original reporting, news outlets reported how Crystal had apparently been in the stadium to attend the live concert along with his brother.
One witness noted the brother was in complete shock as a horrible incident unfolded in real time:
“He was unresponsive and he hit the ground head first. There has been no way he survived. This individual was way too drunk. You could smell it. His brother came downstairs and found out he jumped… His brother was with him. He was crying. ”
That quote is still tough for us to read even a 7 days later… so awful…
Our condolences continue to go out out to Crystal’ s family, friends, and loved ones. What a terrible situation for them to go through now.
Rest In Peace…
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