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A 24-year-old man jumped to his death from a parking garage in Disneyland in Anaheim, California this week.
Patch reported that the man - identified as Jonah Alexander Edwards - leaped from the sixth floor of the 5,000-spot Pixar Pals parking structure around 21:30 Pacific Time on Wednesday, November 15 (05:30 UTC Thursday, November 16).
Edwards was pronounced dead at the scene.
The New York Post has also sought comment from the Anaheim Police Department and Disneyland but neither has yet to respond.
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Three Suicides Within a Year
The incident was the third suicide inside the theme park since December 2022 and the sixth since 2010.
A 46-year-old woman identified as Arizona mother and hairstylist Marney Schoenfeld plummeted to her death off the Mickey and Friends Parking Structure in February.
Last December, a 51-year-old elementary school principal named Christopher Christensen also jumped to his death in the same garage. He was due in court the week after his suicide on child endangerment and battery charges.
Christensen also endured a dysfunctional marriage prior to him ending his life.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 50,000 people died by suicide in 2022 - 2.6% more than in 2021.
About 2% of suicides are the result of people jumping or falling to their deaths, equivalent to some 1,000 people based on the 2022 figures.
