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A man leaped to his death Monday morning from Evans Hall on the UC Berkeley campus in an apparent suicide. 

Capt. Bill Cooper of the UC Police Department said paramedics and police offices pronounced the man dead at the scene. Cooper said there was no sign of foul play but university police will investigate the death, which occurred around 9:30 a.m. The man apparently jumped from the ninth floor of the 10-story classroom and office building. 

The Alameda County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as 31-year-old Duane Alan Mathews of Oakland, who was reportedly a UC Berkeley graduate. 

An autopsy is scheduled to be done today.