Bono doc in shock death
Stabbed in Park Ave. apt
A Manhattan surgeon who treated U2’s Bono after his 2014 bicycle accident in Central Park was found dead in his Upper East Side apartment on Sunday — with a knife stuck in his chest, officials said.
Dr. Dean Lorich, 54, was discovered by his 11-year-old daughter lying face up on the bathroom floor of the family’s Park Avenue home at around 1 p.m., according to police.
The child ran downstairs and told a doorman, who called 911, police said. Lorich’s wife and older daughter were out at the time of this death, authorities said.
There were no signs of forced entry and police sources said it appeared to be a suicide. It did not look as if he left a note, the sources added.
Lorich performed surgery on Bono after the singer suffered multiple injuries following a “highenergy bicycle accident” in Central Park in November 2014.
The rock star lost control of his bike when he swerved to avoid another cyclist and landed on his face, fracturing his eye socket, shoulder and elbow.
Lorich was the associate director of the Orthopedic Trauma Ser- vice at the Hospital for Special Surgery and chief of the Orthopedic Trauma Service at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
He also once treated firefighter Matthew Long, who got hit by a bus during a transit strike in 2005, and traffic cop Terrell Lee, who lost a leg when he was hit by an SUV while directing traffic.
Lee and Long were treated on the same floor and became pals.
Lorich, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine in 1990, was given the 2010 Roger E. Joseph Prize by Hebrew Union College for his humanitarian efforts.
He once traveled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to treat earthquake victims and also spent two weeks at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, helping American soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.