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By Joseph Lyell —
U of L’s campus is in mourning after a student committed suicide by jumping from the Speed Museum parking garage Aug. 16.
Senior Dekoda Battoe was leaving work at the Communication Department in Strickler Hall when came across several emergency vehicles and paramedics surrounding a man on the ground between Strickler and the garage.
“I watched for about 10 minutes as they tended to an unmoving person on the ground,” Battoe said. “I assumed he had passed out from heat or something.