KING 5 has obtained exclusive information about the man who allegedly died by suicide by jumping from a crane at the state’s biggest psychiatric hospital.
LAKEWOOD, Wash. — Court records show the state cut off 39-year-old Pavel Kolchick, who’d lived at Washington state-run psychiatric hospitals for 18 years, from recommended trauma therapy three months before he died in what appears to be a suicide.
Sources with direct knowledge of the incident believe Kolchick jumped from a construction crane on the hospital grounds on Sunday or Monday. The crane is on site as part of a massive project to build a new $1 billion, 350-bed hospital at
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