Eagles fan, 18, dead after falling from light pole

After the team's NFC Championship Game died on Tuesday, an Eagles fans died after climbing from a light pole in Philadelphia.

He was identified as Temple University's student Tyler Sabapathy, and after falling to the 15th Avenue and Market Street on Sunday night, he was injured in his brain and later was placed in his life before he died at Jefferson Hospital. I did it. Filadelphia's ABC 6 reported on Tuesday。

In a statement from Temple's President John Fly and Jodi Bailey, Vice President of Student issue The school lamented his loss。

“It's a deep sadness to write to share the news of first -year student Tyler Sabapathy's death,” read a statement. “On the weekend, Tyler was seriously injured and eventually died this afternoon.

“The promising 18 -year -old man like a Tyler is tragic and both trauma. There is no word to understand it, and the entire temple community lamentes his death. Our. My heart is directed to Tyler's family, friends, classmates, and everyone who knows and loves him.

Sabapathy, a Canadian Toronto, was a member of the school gymnastics team and majored in exercise and sports science.

Before the celebration, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, warned fans not to climb or shoot guns on the street.

“You don't want to be a celebration, you know, let me cause a tragedy,” Parker said. “Don't climb the pole.”

Several people, including Sabapasi, climbed the city's pole. ABC 6 reported that at least two were shot during the celebration on the street.

One fan also fired a gunshot in the air of the Cotman and Frankford Avenue.

Nick Alessandro in Blackwood, New Jersey, I told CBS News this week He saw the fall of the undergraduate students of the temple.

“He was trying to defeat the Eagles flag from Paul, so he lost his balance and would have fallen later,” Alessandro said. “And everyone flocked to him, but others have gone. It was messed up.”

Temple encouraged students affected by loss to seek counseling through universities.

“He definitely had a bright future in front of him. It's so tragic, so he won't see how he marked the world,” he added to the statement. Ta.