FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) -- A man fell to his death from a third-story hotel window while re-enacting an Ultimate Fighting Championship move during a night of drinking.
Police say 25-year-old Darenell Jones was pushed into the window Wednesday night while celebrating the marriage of a family member and watching a UFC fight in a Farmington hotel room.
"It was horseplay, basically," said Sgt. Robert Perez of the Farmington Police Department's detective bureau. "They were hitting each other and pushing each other around."
Jones was pushed by one of the other people in the room, stumbled and went through the window when the thick piece of glass broke, falling 20 feet to the sidewalk below, Perez said.
Medics already were performing CPR when officers arrived, and Jones was pronounced dead at the hospital.
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Perez said he does not have a toxicology report back yet, "but the reports are they were all drinking."
The police department has forwarded its report to the district attorney's office for review.
