Innocent Horseplay Results in Death (Isn’t That Always How It Happens?)
February 27th, 2006 at 7:43 pm by Preston Taylor HolmesPennsylvania man dangles girlfriend out window – 23 stories up – loses grip – bad things happen. Oh yeah, and he was drunk. And possibly stoned.
Police said Monday that Kevin Evenrode, a state employee, “was distraught and extremely inebriated” when he was arrested.
In addition to homicide, he will be charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.
Police said Evinrode dangled Rachel M. Kozlusky out the window during horseplay Saturday night and lost his grip on her arms.
Kozlusky, wearing only underwear and a sweater, fell 23 floors, broke a portico skylight and landed on the pavement in front of the building. She was pronounced dead at the scene of massive head and internal injuries.
Apparently there is some debate on whether or not it was an accident.
“Obviously it’s an unusual scenario,” Marsico said. “Even if his version is true, to be holding someone out on a 23rd-story window is beyond ridiculous. It’s as reckless an act as I can imagine, if not malicious.”
It’s hard to imagine that he would hang her out the window in an act of horseplay, but then again, maybe testing gravity was just one of their things.
A true gentleman, however, would have swan-dived immediately after her in a demonstration of love and unity. Pansy.
February 27th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
Preston, you so funny.
February 28th, 2006 at 12:46 am
Let this be a warning to all women. Never get neaked with a state employee. Annual income of 23,000 should be the first sign that something is very wrong.
March 1st, 2006 at 1:18 am
distraught and extremely inebriated
I GUESS!
March 1st, 2006 at 6:12 pm
Rachel was the senior class president at my high school. I haven’t seen her since HS so it is possible she got involved with the wrong guy, but she was a smart girl, so I doubt she would have gotten engaged to someone who would intentionally hurt her.
What they are saying today seems to make a lot more sense than to the way the media originally portrayed it. Now they are saying that she chose to sit on the ledge and tried to reach the level below but couldn’t. She asked him to help her down so she could touch, and when he did she slipped from his hands. This was on a day they were celebrating their engagement, so I doubt it was malicious. I could see extremely drunk people doing this, as this would be a rush to be on a ledge of a building, celebrating life. It’s truly a shame this happened, but it just goes to show you can never trust yourself, even when you feel you are in safe hands.
March 1st, 2006 at 6:41 pm
Like a lot of people, I started looking up Rachel’s name to see what kind of person she was and saw a few references corroborating what Chris was saying above.
When I was in college, it was nothing to see people getting drunk and climbing up on the guard rails of a dorm (several stories up) and jumping up to the ledge of the next floor up and pulling themselves up. Craziness.
However, if Michael Jackson has taught us anything it’s that you’re only supposed to dangle babies over a balcony.
March 1st, 2006 at 7:58 pm
Yeah, it’s too bad either way.
Let this be a lesson to you spring breakers who try similar drunken crap down in Daytona. Unlike Rachel, who was, by all accounts, an otherwise quality individual, the loss of a few of you spring breakers will only benefit the planet.
So stay off the balcony.
You kids and your Seagrams 7.
March 7th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
i just wanted to say as rach’s best friend, that you all have a lot of nerve. Rachel and kevin were in love. i witnessed it first hand. this is a terrible accident, and as the papers will soon have to report, neither kevin nor rachel did drugs. she was a free sprirt and a risk taker. he loved her and was a wonderful person. i would not defend someone if i thought they intensionally killed my best friend. have some respect and try to get the real story.