Idiot reporting.
First para it says “a man” and later in the 3rd para it says gender of the victim wasn’t immediately available.
Geeeez.
Probably "edited" by a graduate of Columbia.
Far too many of these stories are written by clowns who just do not have composition skills:
...neck lodged between the top portion of a wrought iron fence..
(((
Between the “top portion” and what else, nitwit?
I guess it is silly of me to expect the person who wrote this drivel to know that the preposition “between” needs two nouns or two noun phrases to complete the thought. How silly of me to think that yokels like this even know of the term “preposition”.