Man announces his suicide on Facebook

ALBUQUERQUE, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- A New Mexico man who lost his job and was about to lose his home fatally shot himself after announcing his impending suicide on Facebook, police said.

The message from Jason McCoy, 33, alarmed Facebook friends from outside New Mexico, who called Albuquerque police, department spokesman John Walsh said.

"They conveyed to us that he had posted this message on Facebook and that it included details on the manner in which he planned to commit suicide," Walsh told the Albuquerque Journal.

Police went to McCoy's home, but found no one home, Walsh said.

Around the same time, a passer-by saw a man lying outside a vehicle with a gun beside him, less than a mile from the man's home, Walsh said.

A SWAT team found the man dead of a self-inflicted shotgun wound, Walsh said.

Walsh told United Press International Thursday McCoy left "no note other than what he left on the posting." The police investigation into the death was complete, Walsh said.

Other than his ex-wife, McCoy had no family in Albuquerque, police said.

In February an aspiring actor and model named Paul Zolezzi hanged himself on the monkey bars of a Brooklyn, N.Y., park after posting a suicide note on Facebook.