The cause and manner of death for Boeing whistleblower John Barnett have been revealed, weeks after he was found dead amid a lawsuit against the company.
Charleston, South Carolina investigators have released their findings in the death of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, who was found dead in his truck in March after he failed to show up for his second day of depositions in a lawsuit against the aerospace manufacturer. After Barnett failed to arrive for the proceedings, his lawyers called for a wellness check, and he was found with a gunshot wound to the head in the parking lot of his hotel, according to authorities.
All findings were consistent with a self-inflicted gunshot wound,' the report from Charleston County Coroner Bobbi Jo O'Neal reads. His official cause of death is the gunshot wound. The manner 'is best deemed, ‘Suicide.’' the coroner concluded. Additionally, police said he was locked inside his vehicle alone when they found him, along with the key fob. They found no signs of unusual travel patterns or communications in his phone records, and hotel surveillance video showed him leaving the hotel by himself before he reversed into a parking spot a few minutes later.
Police said records showed Barnett bought the handgun legal in 2000, and they found his fingerprints on the notebook containing his suicide letter. He was suing Boeing, claiming that he had been retaliated against, harassed and spied on by the company.
Barnett worked for Boeing for over three decades before retiring in 2017 as a quality-control engineer. In 2019, he told the BBC that Boeing would rush to get its 787 Dreamliner jets off the production line, compromising safety. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP This past January, Barnett told TMZ that he was concerned that Boeing was returning its 737 Max 9 jets to the sky too quickly, after the incident in which an Alaska Airlines jet's door panel blew off mid-flight.
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