28 July,2011 09:31 AM IST | | AFP
Jeret "Speedy" Peterson, who won a silver medal in Freestyle skiing aerials at the 2010 Winter Olympics, has been found dead in an apparent suicide, Utah police said on Tuesday.
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The Unified Police of Greater Salt Lake said Peterson called 911 emergency services before shooting himself on Monday evening. "He called 911 and said he was going to kill himself," Lieutenant Justin Hoyal, a spokesman for the Unified Police Department, told the Salt Lake Tribune. Police say they found a suicide note near Peterson's car but did not say what it contained.
Officers found the body of the 29-year-old about 9:30 pm between Salt Lake City and Park City in the isolated Lambs Canyon.
Peterson had been cited for drunken driving on Friday in Hailey, Idaho, where police clocked him driving three times the speed limit. He pleaded not guilty. Peterson was best known for the spectacularu00a0 "Hurricane"u00a0-- a triple-twist, double-flip trick that was breathtaking when he landed it.
