An 88-year-old man died early Tuesday morning after apparently falling from his third-story apartment balcony at the CRISTA Shores Retirement Community in Silverdale.

James Donald fell from his apartment balcony sometime before 4 a.m., according to Deputy Scott Wilson, Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office spokesman.

Central Kitsap Fire & Rescue crews responded to the retirement community, located at 1600 NE Crista Shores Lane off of Bucklin Hill Road, at about 4 a.m. Donald was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Kitsap County Coroner’s Office ruled the death as accidental.

KCSO detectives were called to investigate the scene Tuesday morning and spoke with the man’s wife, whom he lived with in the third-story apartment at CRISTA Shores.

The woman told detectives she and her husband went to bed at about 11 p.m. She awoke around 3:45 a.m. and discovered he was not in bed, Wilson said.

The woman went downstairs and told a security guard Donald was missing. The guard searched outside the couple’s waterfront apartment and found the man lying on a concrete patio, according to Wilson.

“It was pretty obvious that he had taken a fall from above,” Wilson said. “We don’t believe any criminal activity was involved.”

Detectives believe the man walked out of a sliding glass door onto his balcony and fell three stories to the concrete patio, Wilson said. Donald’s balcony did not have a railing and scaffolding was set up around the area.

CRISTA Shores Retirement Community is undergoing major renovations, said Kathryn Stenger, spokeswoman for CRISTA Ministries, which owns the retirement community.

Stenger added that CRISTA officials and the contractors working on the project are working closely with KCSO detectives to determine what safety measures were in place during the community’s renovation.

“It’s just an accident, a very tragic one,” Wilson said.