Pittsburgh Tribune Review | By Rossilynne Skena
A state trooper going to his patrol car on Wednesday found the body of a 65-year-old man who is believed to have shot himself just outside the Uniontown barracks.
Cpl. Rich Quinn, who found the body, said he was going to get his camera, which he used in another investigation, “and I saw him.”
The man was lying on the sidewalk with a single gunshot to the chest.
Quinn would not release the man’s name, pending an autopsy and notification of family, but said he resided in Fayette County.
Quinn said he had never seen anything like it before.
“Hopefully, I never see anything like it again,” he said.
A similar occurrence happened less than a week ago at the state police barracks in DuBois. Police there said a 57-year-old man died June 28 of a self-inflicted gunshot in the barracks’ Jefferson County parking lot.
Quinn said state police did not know the Fayette County victim and that he did not work at the barracks.
“We don’t know him,” he said.
The man apparently drove to the barracks, turned off his vehicle and got out. No one heard the gunshot, Quinn said.
The body was found about noon.
The man’s vehicle will be impounded. Quinn would not provide the make or model of the car. Police continue to investigate.
The Uniontown barracks is in North Union Township not far from Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus.
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