Lincoln Police have identified a 22-year-old man who died after falling from a parking garage near 7th and N streets early Sunday morning.
Dane LeClair was found dead on the sidewalk around 9:30 a.m. Police say LeClair accidentally fell from the fourth floor of the garage several hours earlier.
LeClair is from New York and graduated from Loyola Chicago in 2019. According to the University of Nebraska, LeClair was a UNL student and an athletics department student worker.
Police said they are still unsure what led to the fall, but they are reviewing surveillance footage. LeClair was a graduate student manager for the Nebraska volleyball team. Head Coach John Cook released the following statement:
"The Nebraska volleyball family is devastated to learn of the tragic passing of one of our graduate student managers, Dane LeClair. From the moment Dane joined our program this summer, he made a lasting positive impact on all of us with his big smile and friendly personality. Dane brought a lot of energy to our team.
A native of Pittsford, N.Y., Leclair joined the Nebraska volleyball program as a graduate student manager in the summer of 2019 and was an MBA student at UNL. Leclair finished a playing career at Loyola Chicago in 2019, where he set personal bests in kills (117), aces (9), digs (116) and blocks (45) as a senior.