{"id":405577,"date":"2026-07-20T19:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405577\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:21:09","slug":"los-angeles-city-hall-suicide-jumper-idd-as-young-baseball-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405577\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles City Hall suicide jumper ID’d as young baseball star"},"content":{"rendered":"

The teen who jumped to his death from Los Angeles City Hall<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday was a star baseball player with a bright future whose sudden demise has left loved ones pondering a tragic mystery.<\/p>\n

Avery Truesdale, 19, of Arcadia, jumped from<\/a> the 27th-floor observation deck on the\u00a0Spring Street<\/a>\u00a0side of the building before landing on the front steps, according to police. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office confirmed Truesdale\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n

The 2025 Arcadia High School grad was a star outfielder for the Arcadia Apaches who proudly wore a number 13 on his jersey and maintained a .310 batting average over his three-year career on the varsity team.<\/p>\n

Avery Truesdale, 19, was a star outfielder. GoFundme<\/p>\n

The 6\u20192 star athlete also played with the San Gabriel Valley Arsenal Baseball travel team, one of the state\u2019s top college development programs.<\/p>\n

His shocking death has left his family and former teammates wondering what could have happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe light he brought into every room touched everyone who knew him,\u201d said an online fundraiser<\/a> created to help Truesdale\u2019s family pay for funeral expenses.<\/p>\n

His sudden death shocked his family and former teammates. London Entertainment<\/p>\n

\u201cHis loss is being felt deeply by teammates, coaches, classmates, teachers, friends, and all who knew him,\u201d the Apaches said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Emergency responders were called to the downtown Los Angeles building shortly after 4 p.m. following reports\u00a0someone had fallen from the upper floors of City Hall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement sources told The California Post that Truesdale leaped to his death in an apparent suicide. Truesdale was not a City of Los Angeles employee and was wearing a visitor badge when his body was discovered.<\/p>\n

Authorities closed parts of City Hall on the day of Truesdale\u2019s death. Jamie Paige\/California Post<\/p>\n

Visitors to Los Angeles City Hall are required to pass through a security screening, obtain a temporary visitor badge, and tell security personnel the purpose of their visit and the office or destination they are visiting before being allowed into the building.<\/p>\n

On Thursday,\u00a0parts of Los Angeles City Hall remained cordoned off<\/a>\u00a0with yellow crime-scene tape as investigators continued their work.<\/p>\n

Steel security doors also blocked public access to portions of the building.<\/p>\n

A main lobby was closed as police investigated. Jamie Paige\/California Post<\/p>\n

The City Hall observation deck, however, remained open to visitors.<\/p>\n

\u201cAvery was a great kid and baseball player,\u201d said Frank Rizzi, a former Apache teammate of Truesdale, on social media. \u201cRIP big guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Longtime Holly Avenue Elementary School teacher Stacy Hoherd-Harris\u00a0remembered Truesdale as the greatest student PE teacher to ever work in her class.<\/p>\n

Truesdale leapt from the 27th floor and landed on City Hall\u2019s front steps, police said. <\/p>\n

\u201cHis kindness, enthusiasm, passion, encouragement, and positivity made learning PE skills and games so much fun for my first graders,\u201d said Hoherd-Harris in a social media post. \u201cMy heart is broken.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating Truesdale\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teen who jumped to his death from Los Angeles City Hall\u00a0on Wednesday was a star baseball player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,10932,339,48,52,51,47,50,49,4182,711,3586],"class_list":["post-405577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california","tag-college-baseball","tag-death","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-metro","tag-suicide","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405577","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=405577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}