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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.