Suicide at the Swell Season concert in California

​SF Weekly‘s music blog, All Shook Down, reports that a man jumped from a roof onto the stage during a Swell Season concert at Mountain Winery in Saratoga Thursday night in an apparent suicide, according to news reports and witnesses.

Santa Clara County Sheriff Sgt. Rick Sung reports that the man who jumped was not alone at the concert:

“The victim went to a concert with a friend,” Sung says. “The next thing the concertgoers in the audience see is the same guy up on the rooftop above the stage, and he jumps off the rooftop, landing on the stage.”

Sung says paramedics and a doctor who was in the audience tried to revive the man with CPR for over an hour, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

This is similar to an incident earlier this week, where a man jumped from the balcony at a Phish concert in New York. The Phish fan survived his fall, however; it was only a 25 foot distance, rather than a three story jump like the fan in Saratoga took. 

Here’s what an eyewitness said about the jump:

“Glen was joking about his new guitar player, poking fun at one of his songs when a body shot down from above and slammed downstage left,” one witness told All Shook Down in an e-mail. “The guy fell like a dead weight, not flailing, not screaming, just hitting the stage hard and bouncing from the impact. Even Glen didn’t know what it was until he stood over it and realized a man had just launched himself from the top of the stone church-like building at the back of the stage.”

Let’s hope this doesn’t become a trend. Watch the video of the aftermath after the jump.