Matthew J. Grimaldi, a senior at Ward Melville High School according to his Facebook profile, was attending a party in the area when he and friends climbed onto the bluffs near Hulse Landing Beach, the AP reported, citing information from Riverhead Town Police said.



Grimaldi, 18, lost his footing as he tried to climb down from the bluffs and he was impaled by the limb of a fallen tree shortly before 7 p.m., police said. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.

