EVANSVILLE — A man reportedly jumped to his death Tuesday afternoon from the Bally’s Evansville Casino & Hotel parking garage in what officials said was a suicide.
Dispatchers directed city police to the parking garage, located at 400 NW First St. in Downtown Evansville, just before 1 p.m. after a 911 caller reported the incident.
Evansville Police Department spokesman Sgt. Anthony Aussieker confirmed the man had since been pronounced dead. Aussieker said “everything they’ve seen so far” led investigators to conclude the man’s death was a suicide.
Aussieker did not release the man’s name, and added that in accordance with department policy officials would disclose limited information about the incident.
The Courier & Press typically does not report on suicides unless they happen in a public place.
Responding officers and paramedics placed a partition around the man’s body to shield him from public view by the time a Courier & Press reporter arrived on scene. The man landed on a sidewalk along Northwest First Street during lunchtime just a few blocks from Evansville’s downtown business district.
Aussieker said the EPD would “work together” with Bally’s staff to obtain surveillance footage and witness testimony to piece together what happened. A Bally’s spokesperson did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Tuesday afternoon.
It’s not the first time someone has died from atop the casino’s parking garage.
In 2010, a 19-year-old Mount Vernon man jumped from what was then Casino Aztar’s parking garage and later died at Deaconess Hospital. In 2012, a 19-year-old University of Southern Indiana student committed suicide by jumping from the parking garage’s sixth floor.
Bally’s took ownership of the casino in 2021.
Last year, a man drove an SUV off the parking garage’s roof, plummeting some 40 feet and crashing into an adjoining conference center. The man, whom police said was in a “mental health crisis” at the time of the incident, survived and is now facing charges of criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon.
Anyone experiencing suicidal thoughts can reach the Indiana Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988.
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