Brooklyn man falls to his death down garbage chute attempting to retrieve his KEYS after woman helped him get inside and another man looked on

Daily Mail UK ^ | August 13, 2022 | Alastair Talbot

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Security camera footage from an apartment building in Brooklyn shows the puzzling moment when a man climbed into a garbage pit and plunged to his death, as a woman and another man looked on.

Video of the fatal incident came from the first floor corridor of the Medgar Evers apartments in Stuyvesant Heights at around 4am on Thursday. The unidentified man was later found mutilated at the bottom of the chute. He had plunged to his death 15 minutes before his body was discovered.

The NYPD has not commented on why the man went into the garbage chute, but neighbors are saying he was trying to retrieve his keys.

Authorities are also looking into whether the victim died directly from the fall or if he had mistakenly gone into the compactor portion of the dumpster, where he was found disfigured.

No evidence in the CCTV footage shows keys being dropped into the pit, as the man is seen talking to another man before opening the garbage chute's hatch and sliding half of his body inside.

He then seems to sit on the edge of the trash pit before deciding to lay down on the pit's hatch, held down by the woman, to go down the abyss, video shows.

The man and the other man continue to talk before his body is completely inside the chute and the hatch is closed.

The woman and the other man then lean inside the garbage pit to check on their friend, using their phones as a source of light.

The other man then goes inside the chute with his two arms and head, while the woman holds onto his lower body in a bid to prevent him from falling in.

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He'd have called 9-1-1 for assistance, but he couldn't find his phone.

A good time to call for assistance is before testing the theory of Natural Selection.

The two helpers tried to use their phones to illuminate the chute, presumably after he stopped responding to their voices, and because neither one owned one of those Dollar Tree flashlights.