{"id":323569,"date":"2026-08-17T23:44:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323569\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T23:44:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:44:48","slug":"ct-mans-death-in-fall-at-nyc-concert-ruled-an-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323569\/","title":{"rendered":"CT Man\u2019s Death In Fall At NYC Concert Ruled An Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    The Niantic resident had been attending a concert at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Aug 17, 2026 3:38 PM EDT | Updated Aug 17, 2026 5:17 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>NIANTIC, CT \u2014 The death of a local man who fell at a concert in New York City in June has been ruled an accident.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Kueker, 51, of Niantic, fell from the upper deck at Madison Square Garden during a Goose concert on June 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subscribe\">\n  <a class=\"article-subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/connecticut\/thelymes\/subscribe?utm_source=amp&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=mobile&amp;utm_term=subscribe_in_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Kueker&#8217;s cause of death was due to multiple blunt traumatic injuries, the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The manner of death was determined to be an accident.<\/p>\n<p>Kueker was married and had two children. According to LinkedIn, he had worked as senior director of operations at Smartcon. <\/p>\n<p>A GoFundMe campaign, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/in-loving-memory-of-paul-kueker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In Loving Memory of Paul Kueker<\/a>,&#8221; has been raising money to help his family. <\/p>\n<p>As of Aug. 17, it had raised $85,650 toward a goal of $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <\/p>\n<p>Kloe Kueker, his daughter and the campaign organizer, described him in the campaign as a &#8220;loving father, family man, and friend whose presence brought warmth and laughter wherever he went.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>According to the family, money raised through the campaign has been used to offset funeral and memorial costs, and to help &#8220;relieve some of the financial burden during this difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Visit the GoFundMe campaign page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/in-loving-memory-of-paul-kueker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Niantic resident had been attending a concert at Madison Square Garden. Aug 17, 2026 3:38 PM EDT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-323569","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\/323569","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=323569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}