The building inspector that checked a Philadelphia building before it collapsed on June 5 committed suicide on Wednesday night. The Philadelphia building was scheduled for demolition, but instead collapsed on top of a Salvation Army thrift store killing two employees and four customers.
On Wednesday night, 52-year-old Ronald Wagenhoffer was found in his pickup truck with a single gunshot wound to the chest. Reports are saying Waggenhoff did not leave a suicide note but it is alleged he texted his wife before taking his own life.
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On May 14 Wagenhoffer was the last person to inspect the Philadelphia building before it was scheduled to be demolished. ABC News is reporting the building inspector that later committed suicide found no violations when he surveyed the building at the request of citizens who believed it to be unsafe. Ronald Wagenhoffer was the head inspector with the Department of Licenses and Inspections.
"We are a city in deep mourning," NBC quotes Deputy Mayor Gillison as saying. "With the building collapse a week ago, we have now lost seven lives in connection with this tragedy."
Philadelphia city officials have taken some heat, NBC says, for not following up with the inspection. Critics have begun to question inspection policies but Deputy Mayor Gillison said that Wagenhoffer did everything by the book and there were no mistakes in his inspection.
Ronald Wagenhoffer leaves behind a wife and a seven-year-old son.
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