Update 11:30 a.m.: According to KIRO 7, the man was 41 years old, and was found fully clothed, face-down, at the bottom of a steep wooden stairwell. Police say he lived in an apartment complex near where the site of the accident.
Seattle Fire Department medics were called to the 1800 block of 3rd Ave W at 7:38 a.m. today, where they found an “unconscious, unresponsive male,” according to spokeswoman Sue Stangl in a report from SeattleCrime.com. Medics found that the man was dead at the scene, and called the Seattle Police Department’s homicide unit in to investigate.
SPD says the death was not a homicide. According to the report, police determined that the man, in his 40s, had slipped and fallen down a flight of stairs. He was found at the bottom of an outdoor stairwell in the back of a home.