Santa Clarita / Antelope Valley : Coroner Seeks Help Identifying Suicide Victim
The Los Angeles County coroner’s office is seeking the public’s help to identify a man who climbed a utility pole, then leaped to his death from a rescue ladder.
Coroner’s spokesman Scott Carrier said the incident occurred Sept. 4 near the corner of 3rd Street East and Lightcap Street in Lancaster. The man, described as about 35 years old, with brown hair and brown eyes, climbed the pole, reached for electrical wires and threatened to jump, Carrier said.
Sheriff’s deputies and firefighters were able to coax him onto a ladder but were unable to stop the man from jumping to his death, he said. The man had no identification and his body remains at the coroner’s building.
Carrier asked that anyone with information about the man’s identity call the Antelope Valley Sheriff’s Station, (805) 948-8466, or the coroner’s identification staff, (213) 343-0754.
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