Brooklyn Man Killed In Freak Elevator Accident
By MEREDITH TRAINA | wpix.com

3:45 p.m. EST, November 8, 2009
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (WPIX)—
A man fell to his death early Sunday trying to get out of a stalled elevator.

Police say Gerard Fuchs, 34, was in a lift at 338 Berry Street in the Williamsburg section, when it got stuck around 12:45 a.m. He tried to jump from the elevator onto an adjacent floor. That's when the hood of his sweatshirt got caught, causing him to plunge five stories down the shaft.

Doctors pronounced Fuchs dead at Bellevue Hospital Center.

Police say another person managed to escape; there is no information on if that person was was hurt.

This particular elevator has an active record of violations going back to April of this year, records from the City Department of Buildings show. It has managed to rack up seven violations, between 2001 and 2008.