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SCOTTSDALE - The city of Phoenix's longtime finance director died in Scottsdale after falling or jumping from a moving car. Witnesses told police that Kevin Keogh, 55, climbed onto the top of his moving Mercedes-Benz, stretched out his arms and then jumped or fell from the car on Wednesday. The car continued driverless until it crashed into another car. No one else was injured. Investigators don't yet know whether the death was intentional, but the cruise control was apparently set at 50 mph. The medical examiner will determine if drugs or alcohol were involved. City officials and Keogh's widow said...

A man who either fell or jumped off the roof of his moving Mercedes-Benz in Scottsdale has been identified as an acclaimed chief financial officer for Phoenix whose struggles with a parasite might have caused his behavior Wednesday. Kevin Keogh, 55, died about 3 p.m. after he climbed onto the roof of the car he was driving east on Camelback Road with arms outstretched, similar to actor Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie “Titanic.” Police haven't determined if the death was suicide or accidental, Scottsdale detective Sam Bailey said. Keogh contracted the illness a couple of years ago while on vacation...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A top municipal official in Phoenix died in a bizarre incident that saw him crawl out of his fast-moving vehicle, stand atop its roof and extend his arms outward before tumbling off, authorities said on Thursday. Kevin Keogh, a 28-year city employee...died at the scene after he plunged from the vehicle and struck the pavement and a tree...It was not immediately clear whether Keogh jumped or accidentally fell from the vehicle, which was traveling at about 50 miles per hour, police said. "This is something you see in the movies, but this is not the movies," said...