ANN ARBOR, MI — A University of Michigan workers’ union is advising its membership not to speak with federal authorities following a researcher’s possible suicide last month after federal police questioned him.
The assistant research scientist jumped from the third floor and fell to the second floor March 19 inside the atrium in the UM George G. Brown Building at 2350 Hayward St., Deputy Police Chief and Public Information Officer Melissa Overton said in an April 1 email.
He was later pronounced dead and police —first called about 11 p.m. March 19 — are investigating his death as a “possible act of self-harm,” Overton wrote…