An Evanston man fell to his death from a parking garage Wednesday morning near Northwestern’s campus.

The 35-year-old man fell from an unknown level of a parking garage in the 1600 block of Benson Avenue at about 11:45 a.m., Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. Police said the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the manner of death to be suicide, Dugan told The Daily on Thursday.

Traffic on Benson Avenue was disrupted for about two-and-a-half hours Wednesday as police and investigators from the medical examiner’s office responded to the incident.

Following a two-month period in 2013 in which three people died after falling from Evanston buildings, city officials discussed installing fencing or netting on buildings to make it more difficult for individuals to jump from them. Aldermen rejected a proposal in June 2014 to install a fence around the perimeter of the roof of the 12-story parking garage at the downtown Sherman Plaza apartments.

This story was updated to include information about the manner of death and the city’s past consideration of safety measures to reduce instances of individuals falling from parking garages.

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