Ted Koppel’s Son Found Dead
TV newsman Ted Koppel’s son 40 year old Andrew was found dead after a night of binge drinking. According to the New York Post Andrew was declared dead at approximately 1:30 a.m. yesterday morning after drinking with Russell Wimberly a 32 year old waiter he made 12 hours earlier at Hell’s Kitchen bar.
Belinda Caban, 53 who lives at the apartment said Andrew:
“was just really messed up when he came in. He was very drunk,”
She went on to say:
“I didn’t understand anything [Koppel] said. We took him to the bedroom and laid him down to rest.”
It was a couple of hours after that, that they went in to check on him and found he had urinated and defecated in the bed and it appeared he wasn’t breathing. They then called 911:
“His complexion wasn’t right. It was pale. I said to call the police,” Caban said. “When the ambulance came, they said he was dead.”
Koppel began his bender at about 12 noon and did not eat all day according to Wimberly who also said Koppel:
“wasn’t feeling good. I told him to lay down and turn the light off. He was snoring really loud. I thought he was out,”
Koppel lived with his girlfriend and their baby daughter. There was no statement from the family and an investigation continues. No one has been charged in the incident.
Our sincere thoughts and prayers to the Koppel family on this horrible and very sad tragedy.
Photo: Rachel Worth/ WENN
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