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The identity of a 40-year-old male suicide victim discovered in a parking garage Saturday has not been released, pending notification of next of kin. 

The body was found at 2:30 p.m. when a parking attendant at the Center Street Garage on Center near Milvia Street saw the man in the cab of a U-Haul rental pickup truck and called police. 

Lt. Russell Lopes said the man had been dead for as long as two weeks.  

He said the truck was rented approximately two months before. Lopes said the man was an Oakland resident and had been reported missing a week before the body was discovered. “He left a note with the individual he was living with, which indicated he might be suicidal,” he said. 

According to Alameda County Coroner spokesperson Cheryl Gibb, the cause of death was loss of blood from an apparent self-inflicted wound to the wrist. 

Gibb said investigators are examining the man’s belongings in the hopes of locating family members.