This is the other elevator story I was thinking of.. attacked but not killed.
Remember this? Irv Rubin, the national chairman of the Jewish Defense and his apparent suicide? He was standing in line with other prisoners waiting to go to breakfast while being held at a LA federal jail when suddenly he slashed his throat and dived head-first off the third floor tier.
Read how Henry Marshall a USDA investigator shot himself several times with a bolt action rifle, read how the feds say Kenneth Michael Trentadue committed suicide in his federal prison cell (straight out of a Loony-Tunes cartoon), read about hundreds -- thousands? -- of others