had been enjoying himself and during the seventh inning of the game between the braves and yankees, alex rodriguez went up to bat and murray approached the railing to boo and tumbled over that railing headfirst falling 50 to 80 feet onto a concrete walkway between two rows of seating. paramedics immediately rushed to help him. he was rushed to a hospital but obviously gregory murray did not make it. important to note, in 2013, a similar incident where a fan fell to his death. that case was ruled a suicide. clearly no indication yet as to what led to this incident. hopefully we will be finding out soon. in the meantime, the atlanta braves put out a statement offering condolences to the family of gregory murray. fred? gregory murray s family have also released a statement? yeah. his son jason speaking to cnn gave us a statement saying,
community are joining in making sure that we communicate with each other and we support each other particularly when tragedy comes into our communities. we always appreciate your voice. thank you. thank you for having me. well, this is some news that a lot of people have been watching, this fan tumbling off the upper deck of where the atlanta braves play. he has died now. he fell very hard. it was not good. they were doing cpr from the moment they got to him. police investigating what caused a man to fall head first onto that concrete walkway. they do not believe foul play was involved. a lot of passionate fans in this game. this was a big game. sellout crowd on hand to see alex rodriguez and the yankees take on the braves.
frightening. a phantfan tumbles off the uppek at the field where the atlanta braves play and he died. a witness who was just rows away from where that fan landed describes what happens. people were really, really disturbed. the guy fell very hard. it was not good. they were doing cpr from the moment that they got to him, and they were still doing it on him when they left. police are investigating obviously what caused the man to fall head-first, mind you, onto a concrete walkway. but they don t believe foul play was involved. cnn sports anchor andy scholes is here with more information. this gives us quite the visual. authorities have released the fan s name, gregory murray, 60 years old alpharetta, georgia, a northern suburb here in atlanta. a-rod came up in the seventh inning. he was pinch-hitting. fans get up, they start booing, they start yelling, and the fan gregory murray was standing right here in this first row, and
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we ve got the sirens going. we ve got the sirens going. we ll keep going. this area was hit once before. we re going to keep moving. we re going to grab this. keep coming this way. they re crumbling all over the middle east. you have people determined to destroy israel. we want hamas to stop firing on us, and we want to create a situation where they cannot fire at us every other day and pair lies after the country. it s a terrorist group that wants the destruction of israel. no nation would put up with what hawaii 6 israel has up until now. they have to defend their people and their nation. this is where the rocket hit. you can see the explosion through the cement wall. obviously right now there s just a horrible smell of explosives in the air. this is what it did to a concrete walkway. you can imagine what it would have done to a person who didn t take shelter. we re fully supportive of israel s right to defend itself from missiles landing on people s homes and work places