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March 12, 2009 in City, Idaho
Police: Man who fell from Parkade committed suicide
Spokane Fire Department personnel secure the body of a man who fell from the west side of the Parkade in Spokane on Wednesday.
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Spokane police today said that a man who fell to his death from the sixth floor of the Parkade garage in downtown on Wednesday committed suicide.
The name of the man, in his 50s, was not released.
Officers investigating the incident, which occurred about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, said the man had been unemployed from a job at grocery store for more than a year and may have been despondent. However, he did not have a history of depression, said Sgt. Joe Peterson.
The man’s car was parked near where he apparently jumped at the top floor of the garage with no other cars around. His body was found on top of a skywalk connecting Parkade shops and the garage with the Washington Mutual Bank building to the west. Investigators found footprints on a wall and cable barrier that indicated he pushed himself off from the upper parking garage.
“There is no indication of foul play,” Peterson said.
The fact that he landed on top of the skywalk prevented the chance that a pedestrian on the sidewalk below might have been hurt, he added.
Returning farmland to a state of nature 
liarsinnews on March 12 at 10:24 a.m.
Unbelieveable! A decision made less than a few hours since the poor soul fell to his death. The SR has already published the cause that he is guilty of his own demise. When are these decision makers i.e. law enforcement Officials going to do something about Ms. Jo Savage whose death in the River Park Square garage several years ago, is yet to be resolved. And poor OTTO?