HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. (WCBS 880) – A New Jersey man was hospitalized in critical condition after plummeting nine stories from a hotel balcony on Long Island early Monday morning, Suffolk County police said.
The 24-year-old South Amboy man was on a ninth-floor balcony at the Hyatt Regency Long Island on Motor Parkway in Hauppauge when he fell over the railing at 12:45 a.m.
The man was rushed by ambulance to Stony Brook University Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.
Police haven’t said what may have led to the fall.
Just months ago in December, 41-year-old hotel worker David Lerner plunged to his death from an upper floor of the same Hyatt Regency.
Lerner, of Holbrook, fell from a hotel window at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 4. Police and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said at the time they were investigating the fatal fall.
Suffolk police asked anyone with information about Monday's fall to call Fourth Squad detectives at 631-854-8452.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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