Local store closed following customer suicide
By Eddie Mowen Jr. - cmowen@aimmediamidwest.com
EATON A local business was forced to close temporarily last Tuesday, May 4, after a male subject died by suicide in its restroom.
According to an Eaton Police Division report prepared by Officer Sean Mackey, Eaton Fire and EMS were dispatched at approximately 6:55 p.m. to Gillman Home Center, 1120 W. Lexington Road, in reference to a “subject down in the restroom.”
Upon arrival at the store, Mackey reported he was directed inside by an employee who was waiting by the door. He was told “that a male subject had locked himself in the bathroom ‘a long time ago’ and had been making a lot of noise but was now silent.”