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The Denver coroner's office identified Mattar's body through fingerprints and ruled the death a suicide late Friday.

At 3:40 a.m, Mattar, 68, smashed a window with a hammer at his home at the Apartments at Denver Place, 1880 Arapahoe St. He then jumped, landing in the courtyard in front of the building.



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