Sloped-Roof Sex Tragedy

(Columbia, South Carolina) A young couple, Brent Tyler and Chelsea Tumbleston, both 21, were found on the street by a cab driver early Wednesday morning, naked and barely alive.

They were taken to Palmetto Health Richland Hospital and pronounced dead from multiple trauma. Authorities believe that the couple may have been engaging in sex on the sloped metal roof of the Palmetto Armory Building when they slid off and fell 50 to 60 feet to the pavement.

The families and friends of Tyler and Tumbleston are stunned and saddened by their deaths.

 
Brent Tyler & Chelsea Tumbleston
Fortuitously, police received an eyewitness account from a homeless couple occupying the adjacent garage the night of the incident.

Naomi Mosley and her husband occasionally sleep at the parking garage where the couple gained access to the roof. She says she saw at least some of what led up to the deaths.

"I was getting up, packing up my stuff to get it out of the place," she says, when she noticed a young, nude couple arrive in a car, and climb onto the roof.

"When they came in, they was laughling, laughing and happy," says Mosley. "Her arm was up in the air, and he was pulling her up. He said 'baby I got you.' "

"If I could have gave them a warning, and tell them that's dangerous, go some other place," she says in retrospect.

Instead, Naomi says she and her husband decided to just mind their own business. They packed up their belongings and exited the parking garage around 5:30 a.m. [sic all]

Police found what they believe to be the couple's clothing but no evidence of drugs nor alcohol. Autopsies confirmed that the couple died from injuries sustained in the fall.

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