SAN FRANCISCO A football fan fell to his death from an elevated pedestrian walkway Sunday at Candlestick Park during the 49ers' season opener at the San Francisco stadium, police said.
The death came just after kickoff at about 1:30 p.m. in the 49ers' 34-28 win over Green Bay, police said, and multiple witnesses reported the man
appeared to be intoxicated before he fell to a sidewalk.
In San Francisco, police spokesman Gordon Shyy said off-duty medics and police officers gave the man first aid until an ambulance arrived, but he was declared dead from his injuries. Authorities said he appeared to be in his 30s, and his name has not been released.
It was not clear how far the man fell from the Jamestown walkway, which goes around the outside of Candlestick.
Since 2003, there have been more than two dozen cases of fans falling at stadiums across the United States, according to the Institute for the Study of Sports Incidents. Most recently in Atlanta, baseball fan Ronald Lee Homer Jr. died last month after falling 85 feet following a tumble over Turner Field's fourth-level railing. Homer's death was the third at an Atlanta stadium in the past year.