Detroit police are investigating the death of a man who reportedly fell down an elevator shaft at the shuttered former Southwest Detroit Hospital in Corktown July 12.
The incident occurred at about 1:33 a.m. Saturday, July 12, at the former hospital in the 2400 block of 20th Street. The adult male who died in the incident has not been identified by police.
A group reportedly entered the former hospital, and a man fell down an elevator shaft to his death. The circumstances surrounding the fatal incident are under investigation. The cause of death will also be examined by the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s office, police said.
Southwest Detroit Hospital closed in bankruptcy in 1991. It was later purchased and reopened in 1997 as United Community Hospital, before ultimately closing again in 2006. It has sat vacant since.
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The Detroit City FC professional soccer club intends to start demolishing the former hospital in July to build a 15,000-capacity soccer stadium on the site by spring 2027. The club earlier acquired the approximately 17-acre site.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Man falls to death in elevator shaft at abandoned Southwest Detroit Hospital
Reporting by Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press / Detroit Free Press
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