NEW YORK — The 40-year-old son of former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel was found dead in an apartment in upper Manhattan after a day of bar hopping with a man he met at a watering hole, a law enforcement official said Tuesday.
Andrew Koppel was declared dead around 1:30 a.m. Monday in the apartment in the Washington Heights neighborhood, Detective John Sweeney said. The cause of death has not been determined.
Koppel had been drinking heavily for hours with a man he met at a bar, according to a law enforcement official. The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the investigation into the death was not completed.
Koppel started drinking at Smith's Bar and Restaurant in Manhattan and went to several other locations with the man, the official said.
Russell Wimberly told the New York Post he was drinking with Koppel all night.
"He had a straw hat on, and I had one on, and he said, 'Nice hat, man,'" the drinking partner, Wimberly, told the newspaper. "We got to talking, and he started buying me drinks."
Wimberly said that Koppel drank whiskey, and that neither man had anything to eat all day.
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