A 20-year old man has been paralyzed after he jumped off a third floor balcony at student housing apartments The Edge, according to Paul Spike Hopkins, Orange County Sheriff’s Office Night Watch Command.
The man was “in the third story apartment balcony when a witness observed him unsuccessfully jump to a nearby tree,” deputies said.
Deputies responded to the mandown call at 3:10 a.m.
The man was taken to the Orlando Regional Medical Center with paralysis from the waist down. The victim cannot remember the incident, according to OCSO.
Hopkins confirmed that the jumper is not a UCF student and that OCSO does not believe it was a suicide attempt.
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