Posted on 07/30/2007 10:40:32 AM PDT by Calpernia
A TV news producer may have been killed by a hit-and-run driver outside his Greenwich Village apartment Monday morning, police said.
Eric Wishnie, 44, was crossing at Sixth Avenue and 10th Street when he was allegedly struck at 3:05 a.m., according to authorities.
Wishnie was a producer for NBC News. He died at St. Vincent's Hospital, police said.
Wishnie was on leave from the network. He is the husband of NBC reporter Dawn Fratangelo.
NBC News President Steve Capus issued the following statement:
Eric Wishnie was an enormously talented former senior producer at NBC News, who had a hand in some of the most monumental and memorable news stories of our time. The entire NBC News family is devastated by this loss, and extends our deepest sympathies to his family.
I really DO need to read a bit more critically.
Nice catch!
NEW YORK — A former NBC News producer has died after being found badly injured in a Greenwich Village street.
Eric Wishnie was found lying in the street at 10th St. and 6th Ave. at 2:51 a.m. Monday, police said. Wishnie was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital, where he died at 5:02 a.m.
A police source told WNBC.com’s Tim Minton that detectives now believe Wishnie fell or jumped from the roof of his apartment building, 50 feet above street level.
According to a source with knowledge of the investigation, the victim sustained multiple trauma injuries consistent with an accidental fall or jump from that height.
Police called off an initial search for a driver who may have caused the injuries in a hit-and-run collision, according to a source. Police do not believe foul play was involved.
http://www.wnbc.com/news/13781527/detail.html
Interesting reading.
Did the guy who found him run over him then? Just a dumb thought.
On the way home from a bar maybe?
(chuckle)
Actually there are two different times in the news reports first is 3:05 and then 2:51 ... I was just commenting on the missing 14 min. between when he was found (2:51) and when he was hit (3:05)!
At that time of night, numerous adult beverages might have been a factor in his death.
Per post 42 it now appears he either jumped or fell from the 50-foot high roof of his apartment building.
You would think that the splat of blood on the sidewalk from a three foot tall crushed man,
would possibly have ruled out a hit and run driver
No?
Unless the cameras at google street view aren’t currently showing live shoots, I didn’t see any yellow investigation tape around the area.
You can see his apartment building. I guess the street level investigation could be done by now also.
After midnight? Isn’t that when folks let it all hang out?
Well that makes at least one dead NBC producer since President Bush declared an end to hostilities in Iraq.
What was he doing out and about at 3:05 am?
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3am in NYC is like 1145pm anywhere else. It really is the city that doesn’t sleep.
That’s why I tell my kids to be home by midnight, nothing good happens after midnight. Mostly weirdos, drunks, and people up to ‘no good’ are out.
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LOL. Don’t forget the musicians. We’re breaking down our equipment at 2am. But you probably had us in, well, maybe all 3 of the categories you listed.
50/50 chance the perp was an illegal alien...
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LOL. I’m sure that sounded a lot more insightful when you wrote it. But when you break the entire world into only 2 categories (legal/illegal), your comment is true by definition.
I resemble that remark ;’}
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