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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi
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In Kalamazoo, Mich., indignant citizen Ura Johnson confronted police after they listed him as a suicide and searched the river for his body, clarifying he only left his pushcart on Memorial Bridge for lunch and objecting to being called shabbily dressed.
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A Shabby Trick
Kalamazoo, Mich.-The name of one indignant citizen has been erased from the police list of reported suicides here.
Ura Johnson heard that officials were searching the Kalamazoo river for his body. He stormed in to the police station.
He denied he had told anybody he planned to jump off Memorial Bridge. What's more, he said, he particularly resented being referred to as a shabbily dressed man.
He left his pushcart on the bridge, Johnson said, only long enough to get some lunch.
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Kalamazoo, Mich.
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name erased from police list of reported suicides; no actual suicide or casualties.
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Ura Johnson stormed into the police station after hearing officials were searching the Kalamazoo river for his body, believing he planned to jump off Memorial Bridge. He denied telling anyone of such plans and resented being described as a shabbily dressed man. He had only left his pushcart on the bridge to get lunch.