Soldier wrote Facebook suicide note before Springs crash
January 07, 2012 11:00 AM
JAKOB RODGERS
THE GAZETTE
Fort Carson Pvt. Jordon DuBois visited Facebook a little more than an hour before he was killed Thursday in a Colorado Springs crash.
The 20-year-old wrote a message. “I’m goin to kill myself this is my last post ever ill will miss u all…” he wrote at 5:49 p.m. Then he posted a picture of himself.
By 7:09 p.m., DuBois was dead.
The Army on Saturday confirmed DuBois’s death. Colorado Springs police have said they suspect suicide in the crash, but haven’t finished an investigation.
DuBois, a soldier with less than a year in the Army who’d never seen combat, died when his speeding truck veered into a streetlight, a metal-and-concrete bus bench and slammed though several landscaping boulders. The battered truck came to rest at the base of a tree off Westmeadow Drive in a quiet neighborhood at the foot of Cheyenne Mountain.
There is no sign DuBois braked or turned the wheel to avoid the obstacles.
“At this point, it doesn’t appear there was anything he was trying to avoid,” said Colorado Springs police Sgt. Robert Weber, on Thursday evening.
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