DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - Police have identified a 21-year-old man who who apparently fell down an elevator shaft while playing hide-and-seek with friends in a vacant Detroit building.
The Wayne County Medical Examiner identified the victim as Jonathan Mazgai, of Taylor. An official cause of death has not yet been determined.
The accident happened around 1:30 a.m. Saturday at the former Grand Trunk Warehouse & Cold Storage, at East Ferry and St Aubin streets on the city's east side. Police say the group was on the building's ninth floor when Mazgai was running to hide and possibly fell through the elevator shaft.
His friends could not find him and left the building, which closed in 2002. The group returned later in the morning, found the victim's body on the first floor in the elevator shaft and called 911.
The incident remains under investigation.
NOTE: It was originally reported that the incident happened at the vacant Packard Plant in Detroit, based on information from police.
