Bicycle thief/podiatrist commits suicide.

[uppityperson]

I read a couple days about about someone who claimed to be a doctor, took very expensive ($5000-6000) bikes out to "try them out" and never returned them. He was caught using dna left on a cup, or some such. Well, he just killed himself. This is really odd. We need more afforable, accessible, non-stigmatic mental health care.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004198553_bos24m.html

A Longview man who faced multiple charges for allegedly stealing a string of expensive bicycles throughout the Northwest killed himself Saturday morning in a Longview psychiatric hospital where he'd been admitted following two previous suicide attempts. Jacob Bos, a 35-year-old podiatrist, was the subject of a Page 1 story Friday in The Seattle Times.

Longview Police spokeswoman Deborah Johnson said Bos committed suicide at St. John Medical Center in Longview at 6 a.m. He had pleaded not guilty in Cowlitz County Superior Court to 12 counts of possessing or selling stolen bikes.
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Bos had been convicted of a felony in Ohio, where he used another man's identity to buy furniture on credit. DNA from that case was used to link him to the Seattle bike theft.

[maxsolomon]

1. or better suicide prevention protocols in our psychiatric hospitals

he shouldn't have been able to kill himself where he was.

the funds you seek? we threw them down an iraq-shaped hole. it will take generations to fill it up.

[uppityperson]

2. That too.

My fa-in-law commited suicide in a psych institution yrs back, and am a health care provider, so this all hits close to home in many ways.