Assumed Room Temperature Donovan Dickson, Highstown, New Jersey (suicide Oct 2013)

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    Donovan Dickson, 24, math teacher and boys' coach (cross country, track, wrestling) at Peddie School, Highstown, New Jersey, "allegations of sex between a student and teacher"

    New York Post: Teacher leaps to death off GWB amid student-sex probe (Oct 11 2013)

    Popular teacher Donovan Dickson, 24 – whose Facebook page features several photos of him posing with students at the co-ed Peddie School in Hightstown – jumped from the New York side of the GWB last Friday around 11:30 am, authorities said. That same day, police were sent to the $50,000-a-year Peddie School to investigate possible criminal charges against a teacher, officials said.
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    A Port Authority spokesman said Dickson was spotted on the bridge, near the Manhattan side pillar, by a police lieutenant last Friday morning. “He apparently jumped from the south walkway and did not land in the water,” spokesman Joe Pentangelo said.

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    New York Daily News: Teacher at elite Peddie School in New Jersey fatally jumps from George Washington Bridge on same day cops investigate sex allegations (Oct 11 2013)

    A teacher at an elite New Jersey boarding school leaped to his death from the George Washington Bridge last week — on the same day cops went to his campus to investigate allegations of a sexual relationship between a teacher and a student, officials said. Donovan Dickson, 24 — a math teacher for Peddie School in Hightstown — apparently jumped from the walkway of the bridge near the New York tower and landed on a patch of gravel on Friday, said Port Authority spokesman Joe Pentangelo. It was not clear, however, if he was the teacher suspected in the investigation launched by local authorities. “Detectives were sent to the Peddie School last Friday to assist Hightstown in investigating allegations of inappropriate sexual contact between a teacher and a student,” Casey DeBlasio, a spokeswoman for the Mercer County prosecutor’s office, told The Times of Trenton.
     
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    Trenton Times: Teacher at Peddie School in Hightstown leaps to his death as authorities investigate sex allegations (Oct 11 2013)

    A math teacher and cross-country coach at the elite Peddie School jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge last Friday, the same day that county detectives showed up on the school’s campus to conduct an investigation into allegations of sex between a teacher and a teenage student, officials said. Authorities would not say whether the two events were connected, or whether deceased Peddie teacher Donovan Dickson, 24, was the target of the investigation by Hightstown police and county detectives. No charges have been filed in the underage sex case, a spokeswoman for the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said yesterday.

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    On Friday, law enforcement authorities were sent to the boarding school, which instructs over 500 high school-age children, to look into the possibility of criminal charges for a teacher. The prosecutor’s office declined to identify the teacher in a statement issued yesterday afternoon since no charges were ultimately filed.
     
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