{"id":35438,"date":"2011-07-29T13:14:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T21:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=35438"},"modified":"2011-08-01T14:05:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T22:05:36","slug":"a-man-commits-suicide-at-the-corner-of-pickfordsherbourne-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=35438","title":{"rendered":"A Man Commits Suicide At The Corner Of Pickford\/Sherbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man committed suicide by a gun shot to his head around 1 p.m. Friday at the corner of Pickford Street and Sherbourne Drive in Pico-Robertson, CA, 90035.<\/p>\n<p>I saw a crumpled body wrapped in a white sheet next to a black BMW. Blood leaked through the sheet.<\/p>\n<p>I heard the man was from Beverly Hills. No idea yet why he chose this location to kill himself.<\/p>\n<p>I arrived at the scene at 2:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/Images\/photos1\/suicide1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/Images\/photos1\/suicide2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/Images\/photos1\/suicide3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zcIvREuj3uo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>R. posts to FB: &#8220;I remember not so long ago a police car chase ended not far from that corner, and the driver being chased shot themselves in their car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The news media usually do not cover suicides to avoid encouraging them (unless the suicides are by public figures). Thus I have not been able to find out anything further on this story. And I don&#8217;t expect any MSM coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Ken* emails at 1:54: Hi Luke:<\/p>\n<p>I see you cover the Pico Robertson news&#8211; I was driving 1 block south<br \/>\nof Cashio near Sherborne just 10 minutes ago and I saw caution tape,<br \/>\npolice, firefighter, onlookers, and a big white blob<\/p>\n<p>Would like to know what happened and closer pics<\/p>\n<p>Maybe u wanna do that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man committed suicide by a gun shot to his head around 1 p.m. Friday at the corner of Pickford Street and Sherbourne Drive in Pico-Robertson, CA, 90035. I saw a crumpled body wrapped in a white sheet next to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=35438\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[27278,20547,18337,27279,27280],"class_list":["post-35438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picorobertson","tag-caution-tape","tag-committed-suicide","tag-pickford","tag-sherborne","tag-sherbourne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35496,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35438\/revisions\/35496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}