Man dies in fall in Bluff View area

Sunday, December 2, 2012

photo The Arts Bluff District and the Hunter Museum, as seen from the Walnut Street pedestrian Bridge

Chattanooga police said a man who climbed a fence on the walking path near the Hunter Museum of American Art slipped and fell to his death on the rocks below Saturday.

Sgt. Nathan Hartwig said in a news release that police were called at 6:55 p.m. Saturday. Investigators were told the 22-year-old man may have been drinking.

The man's identity has not been released.