A 45-YEAR-OLD man was found dead in the artificial lake surrounding the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers’ SoFi stadium on Wednesday. This marks the fifth death in recent years at the stadium in Inglewood, California, since its construction in 2020. The unidentified man arrived in the parking lot of the stadium around 6.01am local time […]
A 45-YEAR-OLD man was found dead in the artificial lake surrounding the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers’ SoFi stadium on Wednesday.
This marks the fifth death in recent years at the stadium in Inglewood, California, since its construction in 2020.
The unidentified man arrived in the parking lot of the stadium around 6.01am local time according to information provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
After noticing the man on the stadium’s surveillance cameras, security immediately contacted law enforcement, reports Sports Illustrated.
The Los Angeles County firefighters along with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Enforcement Bureau arrived at the scene shortly after, reporting their search on Twitter.
At about 9.48am, the body was recovered by local law enforcement, says CBS.
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The mayor of Inglewood, James Butts would note that they do not know why the man came on property or entered the artificial lake.
“Honestly, this is someone who made a conscious decision to trespass on the property, get into the lake, and he ended up having some distress and difficulty,” he said
Butts continued: “So I don’t think there’s anything that SoFi could have done to prevent this.”
The drowning of the unidentified man is now the fifth death to have occurred in a string of chilling cases since 2020 at SoFi stadium.
It all started in June of 2020, when 37-year-old construction worker Juan Becerra fell 120 feet to his death while working on the stadium, as reported by ESPN.
About one month later in July, 32-year-old Simon Leo Fite passed away at the Sofi stadium due to what was deemed a “personal health condition” that was later said to have been heat exhaustion.
He was also a construction worker, reports NBC 4 Los Angeles.
Then, in September of 2020, 25-year-old Sergio Rojo was killed in an accident due to “sharp force injury” according to KTLA and reports from Los Angeles County medical examiner-coroner.
He was near the construction trailers by Sofi stadium.
In December of 2020, one more construction worker by the name of Luis Escobar was killed in an accident involving a crane, per the Los Angeles County medical examiner-coroner and the Los Angeles Times.
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Although the recent death in the artificial lake by the yet unidentified man comes nearly two years after the last death at the site, it still remains unusual.
Law enforcement is in the process of further identifying the man.
