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Man Takes Own Life In Police Parking Lot

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published July 15, 2014 at 7:01 AM EDT

Pickerington police investigators say they do not know why a man chose to take his life in their parking lot yesterday.Investigators say 67-year-old Eugene Gartin shot himself in his pickup truck. Police believe Gartin may have been dealing with depression amid a pending divorce.

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Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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