Daily Mail – A 39-year-old man who leaped from a second-floor balcony to his death inside a Queens casino yesterday was on a winning streak.
Sayed Alam was up by about $1,200 on the slot machines when he plunged 30-feet inside the Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct Race Track just before 6pm.
Dozens of people were standing in the main lobby of the gambling hall on Rockaway Blvd in South Ozone Park when the man jumped, New York Daily News reported.
The reason for the man’s death is not known. However sources told The New York Post that Alam was not in the red when he jumped head-first and landed face down on the floor. He had reportedly spent the whole day playing the slot machines. ‘He was not in the hole,’ the source said. ‘Actually, he was up.’
Police said a horrified witness called 911 and said he had jumped off the top of an escalator. Alam suffered severe head trauma and was rushed to Jamaica Hospital, where he died about an hour later.
