Swampscott man dead from fall

SWAMPSCOTT – Police said they suspect no foul play in the death of a local landscaper who reportedly fell out of the second-story window of a home on Essex Street early Sunday morning.”The incident is still under investigation, but it doesn’t appear that there was foul play at this point,” Sgt. Tim Cassidy of the Swampscott Police Department said Monday.Ronny Pacheco, 37, of 63 Essex St., Swampscott and 23 Bloomingdale St., Chelsea, was pronounced dead at North Shore Medical Center shortly after being transported there after police found him lying in the driveway of his Swampscott home, according to a press release issued by Swampscott police.The police, fire department and Action Ambulance responded to the home after receiving a 911 call that a man had fallen from a second-floor window.The state medical examiner’s office is performing an autopsy, Cassidy said Monday, but he declined to comment on whether alcohol or drugs were involved in the fall until after the procedure is complete.Cassidy said, however, that Pacheco was originally from El Salvador and worked as a landscaper.Property owner Dean Andersen said that he never met Pacheco, who had worked for a landscaping company other than the one Andersen owns, and was staying with Andersen’s upstairs tenant.Andersen said the window was not easily accessible, and he had been told during the investigation that Pacheco had struggled with alcohol and depression. He also said that he had heard that Pacheco had recently lost his job despite being a hard worker.”I had no problems with tenants,” Andersen said. “Nothing went on ? it was just an unfortunate accident.”The victim’s family did not wish to comment on the incident.Neighbors said that the Essex Street home was quiet and that the residents mostly kept to themselves.”It’s very quiet, I’ve never had any trouble,” said Stephanie Berard, who works at and lives above Tony Lena’s across the street from the home.She said that she was woken up Sunday morning to find two fire trucks and police and ambulance at the house, but said that was the first time such a scene had occurred. Cassidy said that he could not recall police responding to any calls or complaints about the home or tenants.”It’s a quiet, working-class neighborhood,” neighbor Betty Holmes said.The most recent files for the property recorded in the building department date to 2001 when inspectors noted several code violations in a response to a complaint.