CHICAGO (AP) - Officials say an 18-year-old man died after falling backward off a bridge in downtown Chicago and landed on the sidewalk below.
Chicago police say he was sitting on the railing of a Rush Street bridge in the River North area when he apparently accidentally fell about 10:20 p.m. Monday.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the victim as Matthew Lukaszczyk from the southwestern Chicago suburb of Burbank.
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Police say he suffered head injuries and was pronounced dead at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Detectives were investigating what led up to Lukaszczyk’s fall.
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