- Richard Ramirez: The Mercury News' assistant to the executive editor at the Peninsula Press Club awards ceremony June 2.
Posted on 06/22/2007 10:24:45 AM PDT by SmithL
While police continued to investigate the unexpected death of longtime Mercury News journalist Rich Ramirez, there were indications Thursday that the 44-year-old newsman may have taken his own life.
Ramirez, a veteran reporter and editor who served for the last 12 years as assistant to the executive editor, was discovered Wednesday morning in his Livermore back yard, with a fatal injury the Alameda County Coroner's Office described as a knife wound in his midsection.
A coroner's spokesman said the death was considered a "possible suicide," adding that self-inflicted knife wounds are uncommon but not unheard-of as a cause of death.
Livermore police said Thursday that they are investigating the death as "suspicious." Lt. Scott Trudeau would not release details but said there was "nothing to indicate" that anyone besides Ramirez "was involved."
The exact reasons why he would have taken his own life were unclear. He had been worried about the newspaper's plans to eliminate about 40 newsroom jobs, . . .
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- Richard Ramirez: The Mercury News' assistant to the executive editor at the Peninsula Press Club awards ceremony June 2.
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Isn’t the Mercury News just a little left of the Nation and a little more unreliable than North Korean People’s Daily?
Was this fellow involved in the CIA/Crack/Contras fabrication?
After realizing he was a journalist.... well. he couldn’t live with the shame.
To answer my own question, apparently he was not involved.
If so, the first suspect should be Harry Caray.
Suicide by gutting yourself? Fat chance.
That seems kinda wierd, but not so if he was Japanese....oh heck, his name was Ramirez.....never mind!
Will home be up for sale now???
People kill themselves in a lot of different ways, some of them quite unimaginable to a normal person. They drink Drano, for example. Or jump in front of trucks or trains. And some of them probably do as this guy did.
I don't think we can rule it out just because it seems strange to us. I don't know that we can really understand how a suicidal person is thinking.
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