Originally Posted by donrhummy
Read the last sentence of this report. They certainly quickly brush over it. It's mentioned merely as an afterthought almost like, "the stage was delayed 30 minutes due to a donkey sleeping in the road." In fact, i'll bet there would have been a lot more said about that. >
He was hanging from a tree so it was probably a suicide. The press don't usually report too much on suicides unless the deceased was a public figure or if the death had a major impact on another newsworthy even.