Holiday pageant ends in death
An actress in a Christmas pageant who was suspended 25 feet in the air by an overhead rope fell headfirst onto a concrete church floor and died, authorities said.
Keri Shryock, 23, and two other performers were playing wise men on their way to Bethlehem before about 2,000 spectators during Wednesday night’s opening performance at Crossroads Community Church in Cincinnati.
The three were approaching a star when Shryock fell into an aisle in the theater, witnesses told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
“I can’t describe how heart-wrenching it was, her fall to a hard concrete surface,” said Daniel Doepke, 55.
Shryock died Thursday morning.
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