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Tragedy at Christmas show as actress plunges 25ft to her death in front of horrified audience
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 4:44 PM on 19th December 2008
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An actress in a Christmas pageant who was suspended 25 feet in the air by an overhead rope fell headfirst onto a concrete church floor and died.
Keri Shryock, 23, and two other performers were playing wise men on their way to Bethlehem before about 2,000 spectators during Wednesday night's opening performance at
Crossroads Community Church, in Cincinnati.
The three were approaching a star when Shryock fell into an aisle in the audience portion of the theater, witnesses told The Cincinnati Enquirer.
'Toward the ending of the song she came loose,' Daniel Doepke, 55, of Middletown, told the newspaper.
'I can't describe how heart-wrenching it was, her fall to a hard concrete surface.'
Shryock was taken to University Hospital, where she died yesterday morning.
There was no immediate explanation of how the accident occurred, or if there was an equipment failure
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