A patient committed suicide at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital early on Sunday morning. The hospital confirms that sometime between midnight and 1:30 – 50 year old Kent Oshon jumped out of the window of his second floor room in the isolation area of the medical ward.
He fell ten feet and suffered a fatal injury to his head. He was last seen alive at midnight and was discovered missing from his room at 1:30. The hospital says he was not diagnosed with any obvious psychiatric illness prior to the incident but we are told oshon was battling a debilitating terminal illness.
Police are investigating and have called it a sudden death.