Livingston Man, Banker, Falls To His Death: Report

A 23-year-old Merrill Lynch analyst and New Jersey native fell to his death from a 26th floor Manhattan apartment on Sunday, authorities say.

Alex Lagowitz of Livingston - a Colgate University graduate and star golfer who has been working as a credit trading analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch for about a year - was living at Windsor Court on East 31st Street and Lexington Avenue at the time of his fall, the NY Post reported.

An unnamed police source told the Post that Lagowitz was high on about four grams of psychedelic mushrooms when he fell to his death, which is being investigated as a possible suicide.

Lagowitz and his roommate, Max Kaplan, 22, of West Orange, ingested the mushrooms earlier on Sunday, the Post reported.

Kaplan was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance after police reportedly found remaining mushrooms inside the apartment following the incident, according to the Post.

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