A man who jumped off a building in Downtown Gilroy after running
from police Friday afternoon has died, according to the Gilroy
Police Department.
A man who jumped off a building in Downtown Gilroy after running from police Friday afternoon has died, according to the Gilroy Police Department.
The man, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead at a local trauma hospital shortly after he was taken into custody Friday, said GPD Sgt. Chad Gallacinao.
The Santa Clara County Coroner’s office did not release the man’s name as of press time Monday. Gallacinao said Monday afternoon the GPD had sent a request to the Coroner’s office asking them to remove a hold on the information.
An autopsy was scheduled for Monday.
Gallacinao said the GPD’s detective bureau was handling the ongoing investigation.
At 2:34 p.m. Friday, police responded to a call of a man acting suspiciously and possibly following two female Gilroy residents, ages 17 and 19, according to the GPD. Gallacinao said the man appeared to be under the influence of “an intoxicant” but gave no further details.
When police confronted the man near the corner of Monterey Road and Eighth Street, he fled through a neighborhood in the 7200 block of Eigleberry Street, according to the GPD.
Adam Sanchez, the owner of the soon-to-be-opened Milias Restaurant at Monterey Road and Sixth Street, said police told him they chased the man into the Milias Apartments.
The man then made his way onto the roof of the Milias Apartments then jumped onto an adjacent building’s roof. The man was taken into custody by police at 2:54 p.m. then transported from the scene in an ambulance, Gallacinao said.
