It has been several days since 18 year old Corey Kissling of Logan, Ohio died after falling from the sixth story at Sand Castle North. The hotel is located off Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach.
Friday Myrtle Beach police released the incident report from that night.
There isn't very much information on it, other then a long list of witnesses. News13 spoke with several of the witnesses to get their account of what happened Wednesday evening.
Terry Smith was on vacation with her 18 year old son the same week of the accident. They were staying in the same hotel as Kissling. Wednesday evening she was on an elevator with her son, in the Sand Castle hotel. That's when she said she met Corey Kissling, just five minutes before he died.
"He got on to the elevator and he was stumbling and very intoxicated, and I said buddy you need to go to your room. And he was nice and said okay. And then he went to his room,” Kissling said.
A few minutes later, downstairs in the same hotel, Olive Sease was walking outside to get luggage to bring back up to her room at Sand Castle hotel.
"As I was about to push the door, I heard the cracking loud noise. In my mind, I thought...what you call it, a balcony was falling and I looked up, I saw glass. Then I looked down and this guy was about to hit the ground. I guess I went into shock. I pulled out my cell phone. I just dialed 911. I yelled people to come. Somebody fell,” Sease said.
Smith was in the lobby at that point when someone ran in to say something awful had happened outside. Smith said she ran outside to see what was going on.
"I went outside and he was already laying there. A bunch of glass fell on top of him and I ran over. I ran over and I told everyone to call 911,” Smith said.
Smith said she knew it was Kissling when she crouched next to him.
“I had just been in the elevator with him. So I knew it was him because his face was to the side. I could see the side of his face. So I had just saw him. So, I knew it was him. He had on the same clothes,” Smith said.
Smith said by that time a group of boys had gathered calling out to their friend lying on the ground.
"His friends arrived at that time and I told his friends stay out of the glass, stay out of the glass. I put my hand on his back and I knew that hew as gone,” Smith said.
Sease said, "One guy was really all over him. Seemed like he just couldn't believe it."
Horry County Coroner Robert Edge says a toxicology test on Kissling has still not come back. Myrtle Beach Police have also not come back with an exact cause of why Kissling fell out the hotel window.
Count on News13 to bring you those details when they become available.
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