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LAist gets a lot of email. Most of it is nice, some of it, like this, was gruesome.
Our pal the LA Scumbag wrote us this morning about a suicide that he heard happen, and then took pictures. Be warned the pics are very sad, as is the coverage of this life that was cut short.
Yesterday, I had jury duty downtown. When stepping out at lunch i heard a loud noise and people screaming, so i took out my camera and started snapping pictures. Shortly after i was told to leave by police, after lunch the judge told us it was a woman who jumped off the 19th floor, I was excused from jury duty minutes later.Met News did write this today:Now what bothers me is the only info i could find on this is a 2 sentence snippet on LA Times, nothing else no age, no reason, nothing. keep in mind she almost took out 2 people on the corner when she landed.
the first 5 pictures are all of what happened.
An autopsy will be performed Saturday on the body of a 39-year-old Hispanic woman who fell to her death from the roof of the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center yesterday, an investigator for the Los Angeles County coroner told the MetNews late yesterday.photo by LA Scumbag“Right now, it appears to be a suicide,” Investigator Elissa Fleak said.
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Most suicides go unreported because stats show it leads to more suicides .. makes the act more romantic/meaningful. Most news outlets don't report them unless the person was newsworthy before death and/or if it was in a very public place.
The story I heard was that the woman jumped after her son was convicted of some crime.
Hey, Amy. Well said. There's no rulebook, but it's pretty common knowledge around broadcast newsrooms that we don't cover suicides for the reasons stated.
Why isn't the roof of the criminal court building better protected?
My mom works in at the St.Vincent jewlery building and she was stepping out for coffee a few weeks ago when a man got pushed out of a window and landed about 15feet away from her. Downtown is just a crazy ass place.
Yup, I was a juror on duty that day too and heard the news after lunch. There were many people who witnessed the entire thing and were giving their statements to the personnels on my floor. I thought it would be on the news, but this is the only article I found.