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Friday, May 11, 2012

Fatal Fall From Ocean City Hotel Balcony

OCEAN CITY -- Ocean City Police this week are investigating a fatal fall from a Boardwalk hotel balcony late Thursday afternoon.

Around 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Ocean City Police and Paramedics responded to the Holiday Inn on the Boardwalk at 17th Street for a report of an individual that had fallen onto the pool deck below on the ocean side of the facility. Emergency personnel arrived at the scene and located an unresponsive individual who appeared to have fallen from a hotel balcony.

A source at the scene said the individual had fallen from a balcony on the 14th floor of the hotel to the pool deck below. The victim, later identified as Eric Austin Allen, 26, of Dayton, Md., was transported to Atlantic General Hospital where he was pronounced deceased.

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