Panama City Beach police have released the identity of the 13-year-old boy who died Saturday after falling from a 15th-story balcony.
Zackary Dickman’s name was initially not released until police notified his father.
The teen, from of Plainfield, Ind., was checking out of the Palazzo Condominiums on the 17000 block of Front Beach Road with his mother and grandmother when he realized he’d left his phone in their room on the 15th floor, Police Chief Drew Whitman said. He went back up to the room with his grandmother just after 10 a.m. to look for the phone, but somehow fell 15 stories to the pool deck below.
Whitman said all early indicators point to the fall being accidental. The Medical Examiner’s Office is conducting an autopsy, Whitman said.
It was the second deadly balcony fall on Panama City Beach in as many months. On March 19, 62-year-old Thomas Sanders of Dallas fell 12 stories from a balcony at the Holiday Inn Resort.