Terminally ill man, 65, plunges to death from Derby apartment building

DERBY — A 65-year-old man who was terminally ill committed suicide by jumping from the sixth story roof of an Olivia Street building early Friday, according to police.
According to Lt. Justin Stanko, police responded to the Sterling Towers at 50 Olivia St. at about 4 a.m., on a report of an unresponsive male in front of the building.
Paramedics who responded pronounced the man dead at the scene. The man is a tenant in the building, according to police.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner removed the man’s body from the scene. An autopsy conducted Friday determined the death to be due to blunt traumatic injuries, and the death was ruled a suicide, according to an office spokeswoman.
The New Haven Register is withholding the name of the man, who was suffering from inoperable cancer.