BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- The drummer for an indie-band band from Athens fell to his death Sunday after trying to leap from a freight elevator at a Brooklyn, N.Y. party and fund-raiser, police said.

Jerry Fuchs, 34, played with Athens-based psychedelic instrumental ensemble Maserati and the West Coast dance-punk band !!! (pronounced "chik chik chik").

Friends said Fuchs grew up in Marietta, but was splitting time between Brooklyn and Athens when he wasn't touring.

Fuchs and a friend rode a freight elevator to the fifth floor of a Brooklyn building.

The elevator stopped about 3-4 feet above the fifth floor.

Fuchs and his friend tried to jump to the floor.

The friend made it, but a piece of Fuchs' clothing snagged on the elevator and he was yanked backwards into the elevator shaft under the stopped car.

He plummeted to the bottom of the shaft. Paramedics rushed him to Bellevue Hospital, where he died at 3:30 a.m.

Fuchs is the second Maserati drummer to meet a tragic end. In 2005, then-drummer Mikel Gius was run over by a car and killed as he rode his bike on a Sacramento street.