Party-Goer Impaled After 2-Story Fall In Harlem, Police Say

HARLEM, NY — A man was hospitalized Monday after being impaled on a fence outside of a Harlem building after an all-night party, an NYPD spokesman said.

Eliseo Alvarado-Gonzalez, 27, was found hanging by his right thigh Monday morning from a fence outside a building on West 135th Street near Riverside Drive, police said.. Alvarado-Gonzalez had been attending a party inside the building on Sunday that raged on into Monday morning, police said.

A man who had gone on a beer run found Alvarado-Gonzalez impaled on the fence, he told the Daily News.

"Me and another guy walked out to go buy beer. Then suddenly we see him hanging from the fence!” Celso Guzman Rios, 31, told the Daily News. "He was just stuck there. There was a lot of blood spilling out."

Emergency responders had to removed a four-foot section of the fence in order to rescue the impaled man, an NYPD spokesman said. Alvarado-Gonzalez was taken to St. Luke's hospital for emergency surgery to removed the portion of fence from his right thigh, police said.

Alvarado-Gonzalez fell onto the fence when he was told to leave a party inside the building, police said. For an unknown reason, this prompted Alvarado-Gonzalez to shimmy on a ledge outside the building, which caused him to fall down onto the spiked fence below, police said.

After the man was rescued from the fence, a fight broke out during the party which resulted in one arrest, an NYPD spokesman said. During the fight, 29-year-old Jamie Melendez Cortez smashed a Corona bottle over the head of a man who was Alvarado-Gonzalez's friend, police said.

Melendez Cortez will face second-degree assault charges, police sources told the Post.

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