{"id":443617,"date":"2026-08-26T02:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443617\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T02:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:20:10","slug":"california-prosecutor-andrew-haden-died-by-suicide-inside-federal-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443617\/","title":{"rendered":"California Prosecutor Andrew Haden Died by Suicide Inside Federal Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

California Prosecutor Andrew Haden
\n Died By Suicide<\/p>\n

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\n August 25, 2026
\n 6:06 PM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Haden<\/a> died by suicide inside the San Diego federal building where he worked … TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n

The San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office tells TMZ … Haden hanged himself inside an office at the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building in downtown San Diego.<\/p>\n

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\"Edward<\/p>\n

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Haden’s body was discovered<\/a> last Wednesday after San Diego police received a report he was possibly missing. Officers responded to the federal building and found him dead inside an office.<\/p>\n

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As we reported, police said from the outset they did not suspect foul play, but said the Medical Examiner would determine Haden’s official cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n

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Haden had worked as a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of California since 2010 and twice served as acting U.S. Attorney during leadership transitions in 2023 and 2025. He was also a U.S. Navy veteran who completed two overseas deployments.<\/p>\n

Following Haden’s death, U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon called it “one of the darkest days in our office’s history,” while remembering Haden as “a beacon of light.”<\/p>\n

If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat\u00a0988lifeline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Prosecutor Andrew Haden Died By Suicide Published August 25, 2026 6:06 PM PDT Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-443617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443617","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=443617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}