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Jesse Patterson

United States · Aged 22 · Died 05/13/2002
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Suicide

Jesse Patterson killed himself in front of a truck stop about two hours after hitting his sleeping wife with a wrench, the Montrose Police Department reported. He stopped his pickup on North Townsend Avenue and shot himself when a police car approached.

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