A young man has tragically died after taking a handful of magic mushrooms and falling to his death from a high rise building. Alex Lagowitz, 23, jumped from his window in the Murray Hill area of Manhattan after reportedly taking enough of the drug to cause hallucinations, according to investigators.
‘When you take these mushrooms they make you hallucinate, and in some cases, if you take enough of them, they make you believe that you can fly like Superman,’ a police drugs source told New York Post.
‘The only problem is that Superman is really a mirage.’
Lagowitz lived in the Murray Hill area of Manhattan
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Lagowitz grew up in Livingston, New Jersey, and had been working as a credit training analyst with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York City since June last year.
He was a keen golfer, and would compete on behalf of his alma mater Colgate University.
On the day that he died, Lagowitz had reportedly taken the mushrooms with his 22-year-old roommate Max Kaplan earlier in the day. Banker jumps to his death after eating magic mushrooms www.facebook.com/alex.lag...?source_ref=pb_friends_tl Lagowitz played golf for his university (Picture: Facebook)
Kaplan told police he fell asleep after ingesting the drugs, and woke up to find Lagowitz had disappeared.
A friend from university, who wished to remain anonymous, told NYP: ‘Alex truly was a great, warm guy who could always put a smile on his friends’ faces.’
Police confirmed that the victim's roommate, 22-year-old Max Kaplan, was arrested for criminal possession of a controlled substance—the paper claims that substance was the remaining mushrooms in the apartment. metro.co.uk/2016/05/24/man-23-falls-to-death-from-high-rise-after-taking-magic-mushrooms-5901129/