Police say a 19-year-old from New York City who died in a fall from the 10th floor of a Las Vegas Strip resort parking structure might have been trying to take a photo of the Las Vegas skyline. The Clark County coroner’s office on Monday identified the dead man as Eli Tormheim Z”L of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Las Vegas police Officer Laura Meltzer says investigators determined that Tormheim’s fall a little after 7 p.m. Sunday at the Venetian Hotel & Casino was an accident.
Authorities say he was taken by ambulance to University Medical Center in Las Vegas, where he was R”L pronounced dead.
Further details will be published when they are available.
(Source: WSJ)
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Baruch Dayan Emes. My heart goes out to the Tormheim Family. May you know of No More Tza’ar & only be busy with many Simchos & happy occasions from here & on, IY”H. May your son, Eli, Z”L be a Mailitz Yosher for your family & all of Klal Yisroel.
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