WEST HOLLYWOOD — A man lost his balance and fell to his death from an eighth-floor balcony at a Sunset Strip hotel early Wednesday, authorities said.
Witnesses and friends told sheriff's deputies that the man, identified by authorities as Banning Capps, 25, of Carlsbad, had been drinking, said Lt. Ken Leffler of the Sheriff's Department's West Hollywood station. The accident happened about 1:30 a.m. at the Hyatt Hotel, Leffler said.
