Suicide Near Culp’s Hill

Rangers received a call from Gettysburg PD on the afternoon of June 8th, reporting that an NCIC check on a vehicle parked on Slocum Avenue near Culp’s Hill had come back as registered to a person from Sterling, Virginia, who was reportedly suicidal. Based on this information, rangers, Gettysburg PD officers and members of Gettysburg FD conducted a hasty search of the area and soon found a body in the woods about 75 yards north of the avenue. The cause of death was evidently a self-inflicted gunshot wound; a 9mm Glock was found nearby.