Police investigating death in VA Medical Center

UPDATE
Coroner released cause of death Mark Christian Rock, 42, of Las Vegas

Police investigating death in VA Medical Center parking lot
Las Vegas Review Journal
By KEITH ROGERS and KIMBER LAUX
March 20, 2014

North Las Vegas and Veterans Affairs police are investigating a death in the VA Medical Center parking lot Thursday morning.

In a statement, VA spokesman Richard Beam said authorities are “investigating the death of a Veteran that appears to have been on the main campus.”

Beam said in an email that the veteran was found by a VA employee.

A spokesman for North Las Vegas police said the body was found about 7 a.m. Thursday.

Employees at the veterans hospital complex on Pecos Road received an alert when they arrived for work.

Thursday’s suicide is reminiscent of a Jan. 30 incident in which a suicidal man barricaded himself in the parking lot at the federal medical center at Nellis Air Force Base. Police closed roads near the base and SWAT team members and crisis negotiators spent several hours on the phone talking to the 50-year-old man before he was taken into custody.
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