- Sunday September 7th, 2014 :: 03:01 p.m. PDT
#LASD Investigating Apparent Suicide at West Hollywood Sheriff's Station Public Parking Lot, West Hollywood
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Homicide detectives responded to West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station, 780 North San Vicente Boulevard, West Hollywood, to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a male adult.
On Saturday, September 6, 2014, at approximately 10:23 p.m., personnel from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station, received a call from a male stating he was in the parking lot of the West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station and was going to kill himself. Deputies responded to the public parking lot and found the male adult deceased.
Preliminary investigation reveals that the male adult suffered an apparent self-inflicted single gunshot wound to the upper body.
A weapon was recovered at the scene.
There is no additional information available at this time.
Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station at (310) 855-8850. If you prefer to provide information anonymously, you may call "Crime Stoppers" by dialing (800) 222-TIPS (8477), or texting the letters TIPLA plus your tip to CRIMES (274637), or by using the website http://lacrimestoppers.org
Authored by:
Juanita Navarro-Suarez, Deputy
Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau - Newsroom
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
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