Man falls to death from Market Street bridge



The car's vanity license plates are GUITAR9, the name of a record company.
YOUNGSTOWN -- He parked his white Honda Accord on Ridge Avenue, left his wallet and a suicide note in the car, walked to the Market Street bridge, hoisted himself above the guardrail and plummeted to his death.
The call to report a body near railroad tracks under the bridge came just past 8 a.m. Tuesday from a passing CSX train, police said.
Police identified the victim as John Nicalek, 51, of Silver Meadow Lane, Boardman.
The note left by Nicalek instructed whomever found him how to notify his next of kin, a sister, said Lt. Robin Lees, police department spokesman. The note didn't say why the man decided to end his life, Lees said.
The victim, dressed in green sweat pants and gray hooded coat, landed a few feet from the tracks.
At the scene, Capt. Robert Kane, chief of detectives, said car keys left on the bridge fit the Honda. The car was towed for safekeeping.
The Honda's vanity license plates, GUITAR9, refer to a record company. Detectives were checking to see if the victim was a musician, Lees said.
A CSX pickup truck that can travel on railroad tracks was brought to the scene to take the body to a coroner's van behind the B & amp;O Station Restaurant on Mahoning Avenue.