Los Angeles police say a man was killed when he fell out of a tree and impaled himself on the spikes of a metal fence after a night of heavy drinking . Sgt . Melvin Gamble says the victim appears to have fallen about 20 feet from a tree branch onto a spiked fence . The man had climbed up the tree to retrieve a jacket before falling on the fence , LAPD Captain Brian Pratt said hours after the gruesome discovery was made . Scroll down for video ... Drunken accident : A man was killed after being impaled by a fence in front of his East Hollywood home . There wasn ’ t a lot of blood at the scene , and investigators believed he likely died from internal bleeding , the sergeant stated . The incident was reported shortly after 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning in East Hollywood . The coroner 's office identified the victim as 30-year-old Edwin Ochoa . Gamble says more than a dozen empty beer cans were found around the tree . The fence went clear through the left side of his face and exited out the right side , Gamble said . Local residents tell police the man was known as a heavy drinker . Police say the death appears to be accidental . Tragic : The man had climbed up the tree to retrieve a jacket before falling on the fence . He had been drinking .
30-year-old Edwin Ochoa was killed after being impaled by a fence . Ochoa was in a tree 20 feet from the ground when he fell . He had been drinking in the hours before the accident .