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    Celebrating graduate dies in hotel balcony fall

    ©Associated Press
    December 20, 2002

    POMPANO BEACH -- A Texas man celebrating his recent college graduation apparently fell to his death from an eighth-story hotel balcony Thursday while climbing between rooms.

    Nathan Swarb, 22, returned to the hotel about 4:45 a.m. after a night out drinking and celebrating his graduation from Texas Tech University, said Broward Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright.

    Swarb, of Monahans, Texas, and six friends had two rooms at the Quality Inn, but only had a key to one of the rooms when they returned, Coleman-Wright said. Swarb decided to try to climb from the balcony of his room to get into the other room, she said.

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