It has to be a parent's worst nightmare. As parents with teenagers in college, we know the possibility exists that we will receive this call. But under most circumstances we expect a car crash, possibly a drowning, but who could anticipate impalement?
Police this morning responded to University Manor apartments to assist EMS regarding an ECU student who fell and was killed by becoming impaled on a metal post.
Detectives from the Greenville Police Major Crimes and Special Victims Unit found from their interviews that the victim and 4 friends were out in the woods behind the apartment complex. They had been drinking alcohol and were hanging out on an overturned tree. As they were headed back to the apartment complex, the victim was holding on to a branch above him and walking on one below him. The branch above broke and gave way, with him falling to the ground.
Below him was a waist-high metal post sticking out of the ground. The post was apparently there as part of a debris fence that had been in place since the apartment complex was built. The post impaled the victim from the lower left back to the upper right chest.
The witnesses attempted to render first aid but were not successful. Detectives believe the victim died almost instantaneously.
An autopsy will be performed.
It is a parent's worst nightmare.
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