Woman dies after falling from a Mickey and Friends seven-story parking garage at Disneyland in California
- Anaheim police were called to the scene at about 6.50pm Saturday evening
- They found a woman lying on the ground who initially received medical treatment before being taken a to a hospital and pronounced dead
- This is the second individual in three months to die falling off of a Disney parking structure
A woman is dead after plummeting from a seven story parking structure at Disneyland.
Anaheim police were called to the tragic scene at around 6.50pm Saturday after receiving reports of a person toppling from the Mickey and Friends Parking structure, where guests of the So-Cal park leave their cars for the day.
On their arrival at the scene, police found a woman lying on the ground who first received medical treatment before being rushed to the hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
It remains unclear to investigators what led up to the incident, which is the second of its sort in the last several months.
One park-goer tweeted that a bomb squad had been on the scene about an hour after the incident to investigate a black bag that had been left near the bottom of the parking structure.
Pictured: The Mickey and Friends parking structure, where guests leave their vehicles when they attend the park
The woman fell or jumped from the seventh floor
In early December, a man who was the son of a famed Disney musical director, and himself an elementary school principal, jumped to his death from the same parking structure.
Chris Christensen, 51, the principal of William T. Newland Elementary School in Huntington Beach, took his own life in front of Anaheim parkgoers – including children – who’d gathered to watch the annual Candlelight Ceremony.
In a final post on Facebook, he blamed his wife, Marlena, for ‘letting her anger get the best of her’, then calling the police and landing him in jail, which prompted him to be put on administrative leave from his job.
He had been charged with misdemeanor counts of child endangerment and battery and was expected to appear in court the following week.
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Christensen posted about his ‘heated argument’ with his wife and the fact that he was placed on administrative leave
A statement from the school district where Christensen worked read: ‘Mr. Christensen has been a respected leader in FVSD for over 20 years’
