Brooklyn, New York - A celebrated indie drummer died in an absolutely horrifying accident over the weekend. Gerhardt “Jerry” Fuchs, 34, died after attempting to jump out of a stuck elevator. He was attending a formal fundraiser SaturdaySaturday reviews night when he and a friend got stuck between floors in a freight elevator. His friend made the three to four foot leap from the elevator into a fourth floor hallway, but when Fuchs made the jump, a piece of his clothing got caught and he was jerked backwards and down the elevator shaft. Fuchs is well known in the indie community, having played for bands like !!!, Maserati, LCD Soundsystem, MSTRKRFT, The Juan MacLean and Turing Machine. The odd thing? This is Maserati’s second drummer to die. Fuchs had replaced Maserati’s drummer Mikel Gius who died in a 2005 bike accident. Check out a video of Fuchs in action after the jump.

RIP Fuchs. Beatcrave has a nice collection of YoutubeYouTube videos featuring Fuchs as well.

Anyone else have this happen to them? Where my office used to be, the building was OLD. I worked on the fifth floor and normally took the stairs because the elevator was an nightmare every time you used it. Either it groaned and shimmied like the cable was gonna snap or it would occasionally open between floors. There was a gap – not quite like you see in a freight elevator – but it was there. But you had to sit there and make the decision of either waiting for someone or put your body in a position in which the elevator may decide to continue on its destination taking part of you with it. I hated that damn thing.