A promising young attorney carousing at a trendy Saturday night shindig died in a freak accident after he fell while sliding down a banister at the popular Brooklyn Museum, the Daily News has learned.Kirkland Dawson, 34, was at the Eastern Parkway gallery’s First Saturday celebration when he lost his balance on the third-floor staircase railing and plunged to the ground floor around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, cops said.
Dawson was rushed to New York-Presbyterian New York Methodist Hospital, where he died on Sunday.
“We’re really just hearing word of mouth what happened,” his sister, Taylor Dawson, told The News on Thursday.
“We still don’t really know. No one at the museum has reached out to his mom or me. A detective reached out to my mom and said it was a freak accident," she explained."He was falling from some type of landing and couldn’t stop his fall from the stairwell he was on. They said he suffered brain damage and head trauma.”
A museum spokeswoman, Taylor Maatman, confirmed to The News that Dawson fell while sliding down a banister in one of the stairwells.
“We’re deeply saddened by this tragic accident, and our heartfelt thoughts are with the visitor’s family and friends, and particularly those who were with Mr. Dawson that night,” Maatman said.
Via: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-man-dies-after-falling-off-third-floor-railing-brooklyn-museum-20191011-omwt3czm3nhglbgrgzwd3isygy-story.html?outputType=amp
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