Police: Fatal fall in resort occurred during argument
OCEAN CITY -- The accidental fall from a sixth-floor window of an Ocean City hotel room that resulted in the death of a 46-year-old man occurred during a nonphysical argument with his girlfriend, according to the police report.
According to the report, Gregory Sean Pierce of Ocean Pines was in a room at the Fenwick Inn early in the morning on March 23 with his girlfriend of about one year. They had an argument that culminated with Pierce shattering the window and falling out, his girlfriend told police.
The Ocean City Police Department provided a copy of the department's investigative report about the incident after the Delmarva Media Group filed a Maryland Public Information Act request to obtain it.
At about 7:30 p.m. March 22, Pierce and his girlfriend took a taxi to Pickles Pub at 706 Philadelphia Ave., where they drank alcohol, the report said. Pierce's girlfriend told police she was not sure how much they had to drink, but that they were both "buzzing" when they left the bar after a few hours, according to a portion of the report filed by Detective Todd Speigle, who interviewed Pierce's girlfriend twice.
The couple returned to their room at the Fenwick Inn, 13801 Coastal Highway, where they began arguing, his girlfriend told police. Pierce left the room, and his girlfriend said he told her by phone he had gone to McDonald's and then Dunkin Donuts. He eventually returned to the hotel by taxi.
An argument began concerning a missing change purse and debit card, both of which belonged to the girlfriend, according to the report. When Pierce's girlfriend asked him to help her find the purse, he believed she was accusing him of taking it, she told police.
According to his girlfriend, Pierce lifted up a dresser and ripped a door out. He also punched the room's microwave before he went to the window and began to pound on it with both fists while growling.
Pierce's girlfriend said she was sitting on the chair near the desk situated on the other side of the room when Pierce was striking the window, according to Speigle. She got up and started walking toward Pierce, and was going to ask him what he was doing, she said, but before she could, the glass shattered and Pierce "went out" the window into the hotel parking lot.
Pierce was pronounced dead at the scene, shortly after police and paramedics responded at 4:08 a.m.
Two hotel guests in a room near Pierce's told PFC Daniel Jacobs they had heard arguing between a man and woman coming from the room on and off between 2-4 a.m. One guest said that he heard a loud crash at about 4 a.m., and the arguing "abruptly stopped."
The Delmarva Media Group has filed a Maryland Public Information Act request with the Maryland
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner's to obtain an autopsy report from the incident. The report was a factor in the death being declared an accident.
smuska@dmg.gannett.com
410-213-9442, ext. 14
According to the report, Gregory Sean Pierce of Ocean Pines was in a room at the Fenwick Inn early in the morning on March 23 with his girlfriend of about one year. They had an argument that culminated with Pierce shattering the window and falling out, his girlfriend told police.
The Ocean City Police Department provided a copy of the department's investigative report about the incident after the Delmarva Media Group filed a Maryland Public Information Act request to obtain it.
At about 7:30 p.m. March 22, Pierce and his girlfriend took a taxi to Pickles Pub at 706 Philadelphia Ave., where they drank alcohol, the report said. Pierce's girlfriend told police she was not sure how much they had to drink, but that they were both "buzzing" when they left the bar after a few hours, according to a portion of the report filed by Detective Todd Speigle, who interviewed Pierce's girlfriend twice.
The couple returned to their room at the Fenwick Inn, 13801 Coastal Highway, where they began arguing, his girlfriend told police. Pierce left the room, and his girlfriend said he told her by phone he had gone to McDonald's and then Dunkin Donuts. He eventually returned to the hotel by taxi.
An argument began concerning a missing change purse and debit card, both of which belonged to the girlfriend, according to the report. When Pierce's girlfriend asked him to help her find the purse, he believed she was accusing him of taking it, she told police.
According to his girlfriend, Pierce lifted up a dresser and ripped a door out. He also punched the room's microwave before he went to the window and began to pound on it with both fists while growling.
Pierce's girlfriend said she was sitting on the chair near the desk situated on the other side of the room when Pierce was striking the window, according to Speigle. She got up and started walking toward Pierce, and was going to ask him what he was doing, she said, but before she could, the glass shattered and Pierce "went out" the window into the hotel parking lot.
Pierce was pronounced dead at the scene, shortly after police and paramedics responded at 4:08 a.m.
Two hotel guests in a room near Pierce's told PFC Daniel Jacobs they had heard arguing between a man and woman coming from the room on and off between 2-4 a.m. One guest said that he heard a loud crash at about 4 a.m., and the arguing "abruptly stopped."
The Delmarva Media Group has filed a Maryland Public Information Act request with the Maryland
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner's to obtain an autopsy report from the incident. The report was a factor in the death being declared an accident.
smuska@dmg.gannett.com
410-213-9442, ext. 14
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