Skydiver found dead in Florida yard after apparent parachuting accident

A skydiver was found dead in the yard of a Florida home after an apparent accident while parachuting, local police said.

Frederick C Morello, 69, was discovered outfitted in parachute attire and gear on the lawn of a house in Titusville in the center of the state near Cape Canaveral at about 12.30pm on Saturday. “Morello was pronounced deceased at the scene. This remains an ongoing investigation,” police said in a statement.

James Sconiers told local TV station WKMG that the man landed in his front yard and that he had tried to help but he was clearly dead.

“I was asking the person that was laying on the ground, ‘Hey man can you hear me, can you hear me?’ But he did not answer,” Sconiers told WKMG.

A later examination of a neighbor’s surveillance video captured a reflection in an SUV window apparently showing the skydiver falling from the sky before hitting the lawn.

It was not immediately known where Morello had been skydiving from.