By Daily Press staff
Two people committed suicide within two hours of each other on the morning of Friday the 13th.
At about 8:50 a.m., a woman in her 30’s apparently jumped from the top floor of parking structure No. 2 and landed in the alley between Second and Third streets. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
At 10:25 a.m., a 91-year-old man with severe health problems shot himself at his residence on 25th Street, police said. His care-giver found him and called 911, police said.
In the first suicide, a person was walking down the alley between Santa Monica Boulevard and Arizona Avenue and heard a loud noise, police said. The person turned around, saw the woman lying face down and then called police.
Santa Monica Police roped off the area as people walked in and out of the parking structure. The woman’s body remained in the alley for three hours before the Los Angeles Coroner removed her.
Neither person has been identified, pending notification of their families.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 14, 2003. Read the original PDF.