Man Attempts Suicide Last Night Before Game

Buster · Sep 7, 2007

INDIANAPOLIS - A man fell from the ninth-story deck of a downtown hotel overlooking Monument Circle, where thousands of people were attending a concert Thursday as part of the Indianapolis Colts' season-opening festivities, police said. Investigators believed the man might have jumped from the outdoor pool deck of the Sheraton Indianapolis City Centre Hotel in a suicide attempt about 7:15 p.m., Deputy Police Chief Joseph McAtee said.
The man was taken to Wishard Memorial Hospital, but information on his condition or identity was not immediately available. No injuries on the ground were reported.

"Whatever he had with him, he left on the table and walked over to the wall," McAtee said.A party was being held at the time on the pool deck, which surrounded by a railing, he said.

neverbeanother#7 · Sep 7, 2007

If the colts didn't cover that game i might have joined him.:monsters-

Journeyman · Sep 7, 2007

I had a friend kill himself that way, he had tried a couple times, finally did it for good , jumping out a 2nd story bedroom window in fron tof his family.

Also had an ex-uncle by marriage jump off a very high bridge to his death...can't even imagine what they''re thinking to go this far.

very sad.

steaktartar · Sep 7, 2007

Journeyman said:
I had a friend kill himself that way, he had tried a couple times, finally did it for good , jumping out a 2nd story bedroom window in fron tof his family.

Also had an ex-uncle by marriage jump off a very high bridge to his death...can't even imagine what they''re thinking to go this far.

very sad.

2nd story?

Journeyman · Sep 7, 2007

steak tartar said:
2nd story?

Yea? This was actually a very bizarre event for me personally...I knew this guy since I was 6, we wnet to high school together, I played baseball with him from the time I was 6-7 years old...this guy was a big time athlete as well, I think he was doing steroids as far back as the early 80's, the type of guy you would never expect to do this.

I found out about his death from some guys I had not seen in years, two days later I was working and saw this man I had not seen in like 28-29 years, turns out it was his dad...I asked him if he remembered me, and from there we talked about it...he had been dead for about a year at the time...it really freaked me out running into his dad who I had not seen since little league and then recognizing him 3 decades later.