Crime & Safety

UPDATED: Man Dies in 85-Foot Fall at Turner Field

SUMMERHILL — No foul play is suspected in the death of a man who plunged 65 feet to his death at Turner Field just before 9 p.m. on Aug. 12, Atlanta police said.

The man, whom The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported was 30-year-old Conyers resident Ronald Lee Homer, fell from an upper level platform to a secured parking lot.

Police spokesman John Chaffee said the man, whose name was not released, was taken to the Atlanta Medical Center where he died from his injuries.


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