Woman falls to her death from Balboa Street fire escape

Early this morning at around 3am, police and fire officials were on the scene at 4730 Balboa near La Playa, where a dead woman was laying on the sidewalk in front of an apartment building.

The victim had fallen approximately 25 feet from the 2nd story fire escape of the building. Hugh of ob-kc.com lives close by and reported from the scene that the victim suffered “massive head trauma” and that there was a large amount of blood.

The victim was removed around 5:30am by the medical examiner and the scene was cleaned. It’s unknown at this time whether the victim was male or female, and the cause of the incident.

Sarah B.

UPDATE: SFWeekly’s The Snitch reports that the woman who died was 96 year old Francis Rule. Police spokeswoman Lieutenant Lyn Tomioka says there “is no sign of criminal activity” in Rule’s death. It is “a medical examiner case.”