Acclaimed NY surgeon found dead in Park Avenue apartment in suspected suicide

[sandensea]

An acclaimed trauma surgeon was found dead with a knife in his torso Sunday in his Park Avenue apartment in a suspected suicide, New York City police said.

Dr. Dean Lorich, 54, was the associate director of the orthopedic trauma service at the Hospital for Special Surgery who treated Bono in 2014 after the U2 frontman was badly injured in a cycling accident in Central Park.

His death is being investigated as an apparent suicide, a New York Police Department official told ABC News. Initial investigations did not find any signs of forced entry at his apartment, the official said. Authorities have not found a suicide note.

Police responding to a 911 call of an assault in a Park Avenue apartment at 1:05 p.m. Sunday found Lorich unconscious and unresponsive with a knife in his torso, according to the NYPD.

At: http://abcnews.go.com/US/york-surgeon-found-dead-park-avenue-apartment/story?id=51710242

Dr. Dean Lorich, 1963-2017.

[democratisphere]

1. Suspicious.

[Pachamama]

2. They suspect suicide? He was found dead with a knife in his torso!!!

Do they think he impaled himself?

A trained surgeon would know how to cut his carotoid or other place on body and bleed out quickly - not stab himself...

WTF????

[sandensea]

3. Truly.

What struck me as well is how quickly they jumped to that conclusion.

The old "nothing to see here folks."

[Pachamama]

4. Protecting the 11 year old daughter who was in apartment home with him?

Why else would they so quickly jump to that conclusion and state that - and the daughter presumably the only witness?

Meanwhile - I just posted in another thread you started on this topic....that I actually knew Dean in college! He was at Penn when I was there (graduated ahead of me) and then when I was a Senior I was dating a fellow med student with him that was there on campus and we knew each other socially and same group of friends....

Small world indeed...crazy....

[sandensea]

5. Thank you for sharing that anecdote.

It must have been painful to read this. I'm terribly sorry.

[left-of-center2012]

6. Wouldn't a doctor have access to a painless way to die?

Why a knife in his torso?

[sandensea]

7. What might answer that,

is knowing on what, or with whom, was he working before he died.

Perhaps it really was suicide. But it's definitely just as likely that it was something else.

Either way, God speed to him. He seemed like the kind of person we'd need more of in this world of ours.