Top Gun director Tony Scott jumps to his death in Los Angeles

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Top Gun director Tony Scott jumps to his death in Los Angeles

Director and producer Tony Scott, best known for movies like Top Gun, Days of Thunder and Beverly Hills Cop II, died yesterday when he took his own life jumping from the San Pedro Bridge in Los Angeles. Scott is the brother of Ridley Scott, and was most recently working on a sequel to Top Gun.

The local Daily Breeze newspaper is quoting Los Angeles County Coroner’s officials as saying that the 68-year-old British film director jumped to his death today from the Vincent Thomas Bridge spanning San Pedro and Terminal Island. Tony Scott climbed a fence on the south side of the bridge’s apex and leaped “without hesitation” around 12:30 PM, according to the Coroner’s Department and port police quoted by the newspaper. A suicide note was found inside Scott’s black Toyota Prius, which was parked on one of the eastbound lanes of the bridge, as U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Jennifer Osburn told the Daily Breeze. Earlier today Deadline was alerted that “an older gentlemen who people recognized from either movies and/or TV tried to jump off a pier” and that the attempt was not successful”.

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