{"id":366824,"date":"2026-06-19T06:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/366824\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T06:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:26:17","slug":"san-diego-police-call-death-of-student-hit-by-sdpd-vehicle-apparent-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/366824\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego police call death of student hit by SDPD vehicle apparent suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators on Thursday called the death of a University of San Diego student who was <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/crime\/2026\/06\/17\/pedestrian-death-police-linda-vista\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">struck by a police vehicle<\/a> near the Linda Vista campus an apparent suicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile the circumstances surrounding the collision were initially unclear, the investigation has since determined that the pedestrian intentionally stepped into the path of the police vehicle,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego police<\/a> Lt. Cesar Jimenez said in a news release. \u201cBased on the evidence collected and witness statements obtained during the investigation, the death is believed to be a suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials also released the name of the young man Thursday. He was Justin Cann, 21, of Aurora, Colorado, according to police and the county Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The marked police cruiser hit Cann in the 5800 block of Linda Vista Road at about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The officer pulled over and administered first aid to Cann before paramedics arrived. Doctors later pronounced the man dead at a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">USD officials have said they are cooperating with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of self-harm, help is available. Call or text 988 for support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Updated 4:20 p.m. June 18, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators on Thursday called the death of a University of San Diego student who was struck by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75,9862,16852],"class_list":["post-366824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-police-department","tag-university-of-san-diego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}