HOUSTON (AP) -- A 25-year-old fan died after tumbling off an escalator from the fifth to ground floor while attending a preseason Houston Texans' game at Reliant Stadium, city police said Friday.
The man fell during the Thursday game between the Texans and the Minnesota Vikings, Reliant Stadium officials said in a statement.
Houston Police Department spokesman John Cannon said he could not identify the man until his family had been informed. He said the circumstances of the fall and what the man was doing at the time were still under investigation. The fan fell from the fifth-floor escalator to the ground floor, Cannon said.
''He was transported to Memorial Hermann Hospital after we had had some fans get the attention of some Houston police officers who were nearby where the body fell,'' Cannon said.
Police consider the death accidental, Cannon said.
The Houston Medical Examiner's Office confirmed in an email Friday that it had received the body. The medical examiner's website said the man died in a Houston emergency room.
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