{"id":273681,"date":"2026-06-22T08:39:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273681\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:39:57","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-falls-to-his-death-at-madison-square-garden-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273681\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Falls To His Death At Madison Square Garden Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 51-year-old Connecticut man has died after falling from the upper level inside Madison Square Garden during a concert Saturday night, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police identified the victim as Paul Kueker of Niantic, Connecticut. Authorities said he had been attending the show with his wife.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officers responded to a 911 call around 9:50 p.m. and found the man unconscious and suffering from injuries consistent with a fall from an elevated area of the arena. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators said there are no indications of foul play, and the circumstances surrounding the fall remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The incident occurred during a performance by the rock band Goose. In a statement posted on social media, the band said it was \u201cdeeply saddened and heartbroken\u201d by the tragedy and extended condolences to those affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 51-year-old Connecticut man has died after falling from the upper level inside Madison Square Garden during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-273681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}