The man who fatally fell from a Wellington building earlier this week has been identified by police as 19-year-old Canadian national Tyler James Bates. Canadian news network CBC are reporting Bates died while free-climbing the building. The 19-year-old fell from a central Wellington building accessed off Gilmer Terrace around 2.50am on Monday. "He was coming here for one month to check it all out and see how it was," Darryl Bates said from Wellington. Darryl Bates said his son was an avid fan of snowboarding and mountain biking"He pushed his friends to experience life.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 29, 2019 23:48 UTC