Freddie Mac acting chief financial officer David Kellermann has committed suicide at his residence in Vienna, Virginia (location corrected), reports Washington, D.C. CBS affiliate WUSA/9.
According to WUSA, Fairfax County Police responded to Kellermann's home around 5 a.m. EDT after his wife called in with the claim that her husband committed suicide. Kellermann was found dead at the scene.
As of yet, police will NOT officially confirm that the death is the result of a suicide. Such a ruling would have to come formally from a medical examiner. At this point, there doesn't seem to be much dispute about the nature of what took place.
Kellermann's suicide comes in the wake of two widely publicized murder-suicide tragedies in the Maryland suburbs of the Washington/Baltimore region. Last Saturday's horror in Middletown was in fact committed by a man in severe distress over an unpayable housing debt.
I fear we're seeing the beginnings of a trend in which the worldwide economic downturn triggers more breakdowns in mental health and inevitably, more losses of lives. The Freddie Mac CFO's suicide could just prove the trend's most visible effect.
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