New York man killed in elevator shaft fall

New York, March 02: A Man carrying a mattress backed into an elevator shaft in The Bronx, near New York City, and fell to his death, MyFoxNY reported today.

The victim’s wife told police she and her husband were moving into the building at 1749 Grand Concourse last night when the 34-year-old took a deadly fall,

My Fox New York

reports.

Police say the elevator door opened and the man took a step in without looking. There was no elevator.

He was rushed to the Saint Barnabas Hospital where he was pronounced dead early this morning.

A police investigation was underway.

—Agencies