A man who jumped from the Seventh Street Garage in downtown Santa Rosa early Wednesday morning died of injuries sustained in the fall, police said.
The man was identified as 57-year-old Michael Mountanos, according to the Sonoma County Coroner's Office.
A parking attendant saw the man dive from atop the four-story building shortly after 6:30 a.m. after seeing him in an area that was not open to public parking, police Sgt. Clay Van Artsdalen said.
Van Artsdalen said when the attendant called the man over to talk, the man climbed to the edge of the wall and dove off.
A stub in the man's car indicated he had entered the parking garage at 6:23 a.m., not long before he died in a breezeway between the garage and the Mendocino Place apartments.
The man was unconscious when emergency personnel arrived and was later pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
His mother, Beverly Mountanos, said her son, who was unemployed and unmarried, left the home they shared early Wednesday. Officers came to her door a short time later to report his death, she said.
"I don't know why this happened," she said. "He was a wonderful son. It's just such a shock."
— Mary Callahan
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