Crime & Safety

Man Found Dead in Parking Lot of Rochester Hills Gym

The death was ruled a suicide by the Oakland County Sheriff's Office.

A 37-year-old Auburn Hills man was found dead inside an SUV parked at a Rochester Hills gym on Wednesday night, according to police reports.

The death was a suicide, according to a report released Saturday night by the Oakland County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff's deputies found a hose running from the exhaust pipe of the man's sport utility vehicle to the interior of the vehicle, the report stated.

The incident was reported at 6:05 p.m. at Lifetime Fitness on Avon Road. The man had been reported missing from Auburn Hills at 3 p.m., the report stated. 

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