A New Jersey man died in Chicago after leaping into Lake Michigan in an apparent attempt to evade police trying to check his identity. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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Cops were questioning 31-year-old Amit Patel, of Edison, N.J., when he suddenly jumped into the lake about 8:10 p.m. Wednesday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Patel was pulled from the dark, murky water 45 minutes later.
He was rushed to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in “extremely critical condition” and pronounced dead at about 9:30 p.m., authorities told the Sun-Times.
Before Patel leapt to his death, he was hanging out inside a park that was being cleared out by cops because it had closed.
The officers had just asked for Patel’s name when he plunged into the lake, sources told the Sun-Times.
Investigators were handling the case as a suicide, a police spokesman told the Chicago Tribune.
An autopsy to determine the cause and manner of Patel’s death is scheduled for Thursday.
