The son of a popular restaurant owner in New York City fell to his death escalator at Madison Square Garden after watching a Rangers hockey game on Saturday, March 18.
Ernest Vogliano, Jr, 61, rode an escalator inside the massive arena when he fell down three floors.
According to his family and officials, his death was ruled accidental by the medical examiner.
Vogliano’s wife, Lena Vogliano, hired an attorney to investigate the matter, because she was unsatisfied by her interaction with law enforcement. She claims they kept her in the dark about the tragedy and how it happened.
The Vogliano family attorney, Fred Eisenberg said the family did not know what happened to Vogliano, so they would have to review all available evidence.
The New York Police Department received 911 calls about an injured person at the Madison Square Garden arena at around 10:40 pm on Saturday. Responding officers found the man unresponsive and bleeding from a head injury.
First responders rushed the 61-year-old man to Bellevue Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.
The city medical examiner determined his cause of death to be blunt force trauma and an accident.
According to Attorney Eisenberg, the wife was not given details about her husband’s death, prompting the lawyer to send a demand letter to Madison Square Garden officials that all evidence of Vogliano’s death should be preserved.
Vogliano was the son of the late Ernest Vogliano, Sr, the legendary owner of II Vagabondo restaurant, a popular Italian eatery on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, before it closed down.