Crime & Safety
Inspector of Collapsed Center City Building Found Dead
A man who inspected the building that collapsed in Center City last week is found dead in Roxborough.
Police said they found the body of a 52-year-old man in the front seat of a pickup truck with a single gunshot wound to his chest in the 100 block of Shawmont Avenue at 9:10 p.m. Wednesday night.
Police are investigating the incident as a suicide.
Police told Philly.com that the man was an L&I building inspector named Ronald Wagenhoffer who inspected the building that collapsed in Center City last week.
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Wagenhoffer was found dead less than a mile from his home, according to NBC Philadelphia.
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