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A parachutist who jumped to his death from a bridge during a festival when his chute opened too late was a retired police lieutenant and stanley usa an outdoor enthusiast, a former colleague said.Brian Lee Schubert, 66, died of injuries suffered when he hit the water 876 feet below the New River Gorge Bridge during the annual Bridge Day festival on Saturday, said Fayette County Sheriff Bill Laird.Schubert, of Alta Loma, Calif., had been well known in the sport of BASE jumping since 1966, when he and a friend became the first people to jump from El Capitan, a nearly 3,000-foot-tall rock formation, in California s Yosemite National Park.The sport s acronym stands for the places jumpers usually leap from: buildings, antennae, spans and earth.Schubert retired from the Pomona, Calif., police department in 1989. He was a well-respected lieutenant here for a number of years, Lt. Mark Warm told the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin of Ontario, Calif. He retired and started his own private investigation bus stanley water bottle iness. Schubert w stanley cup as always willing to help his friends get started in outdoor activities, Warm recalled, adding that the men had recently discussed going fishing together sometime in the future.Thousands of people witnessed the jump.Lew Whitener, a newspaper photographer covering the annual Bridge Day festival for the Register-Herald of Beckley, said it appeared Schubert s chute didn t start to open until he was about 25 feet above the water. The crowd gave a collective gasp, he said. Cins Google s Project Loon Now Has a Carrier Working On It Too
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