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Cops: Jersey City man dies after trying to dive out window

#10858281 - 08/14/09 09:10 AM (17 years, 6 days ago)

Cops: Jersey City man dies after trying to dive out window
by Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal
Thursday August 13, 2009, 12:43 PM

A Jersey City man died yesterday after trying to dive out a first-floor window that had bars on the exterior. More than one person told police the man had a history of smoking PCP, officials said.

When police arrived at the Stevens Avenue residence at 4:09 p.m. they found Todd M. Patterson, 31, face-first in the window with his arms hanging outside through the bars in the home of a neighbor who had let him in to use her restroom, reports said.

Patterson was not breathing and both police and emergency medical technicians performed CPR on him but he was pronounced dead on arrival at the Jersey City Medical Center, reports said.

The 29-year-old neighbor said that when Patterson banged loudly on her door and asked to use the restroom she let him in because he was from the neighborhood and she'd known him since grammar school, reports said.

She also noted that he seemed to be smoking something when he entered, reports said.

After a few minutes in the bathroom, Patterson came out "and was sweating and started to bug out," reports said.

He demanded to speak to his mother, dropped his pants and urinated on the floor, reports said.

When the neighbor told him to get out of her house, he pushed her, reports said.

The neighbor said Patterson then "ran into the living room and attempted to jump face first through the window, going through the glass and stopping due to the metal bars," reports said.

She said she called Patterson's relatives and the victim's aunt ran over and dialed 911 when she saw Patterson in the window, reports said.

When police asked the neighbor if Patterson had a history of substance abuse, "She said she knows he smokes PCP and that's all she knows," reports said.

Police then went to Patterson's home and found his cousin on the porch crying, reports said.

The cousin said he'd worked out with Patterson in the garage earlier in the day and then took a nap but was awoken by a call from the neighbor saying he was going crazy in her home, reports said.

The cousin couldn't go himself because he was under house arrest and wearing an electronic tracking bracelet, reports said.

When asked if Patterson had a history of drug abuse, the 28-year-old cousin said, "He smokes PCP," reports said.

Detectives contacted the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office's Homicide Squad but the case was left in the hands of police based on the facts, reports said.

Homicide detectives said they will take up the investigation if Patterson's death is ruled suspicious following an autopsy to be conducted at the state Regional Medical Examiner's Office in Newark.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2009/08/cops_jeresy_city_man_dies_afte.html

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