A Connecticut finance professional committed suicide by jumping from Bar 54 at the Hyatt Centric Times Square in Manhattan on Wednesday, January 25 at 6:30 p.m. He was identified as Dale L. Cheney, 46.
Witnesses at the bar confirmed that Cheney didn’t accidentally fall. He jumped.
Cheney, a father of three children, was going through a complicated divorce from his wife, Lauren Cheney. The divorce papers had been filed just two days before he jumped.
On January 16, a week before he took his life, Cheney was charged with misdemeanors after a domestic dispute with his wife in their home in New Canaan, Connecticut, according to The Wilton Bulletin. Mrs. Cheney received a restraining order against him after the fight and he was charged with 4th-degree criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. He was released on a $25,000 bond after a court appearance in Stamford, Connecticut.
Cheney was the founder of an equity firm named T-Street Capital in Darien, Connecticut. He was a board member and an investor in other financial companies and previously worked at Citicorp Venture Capital and Goldman Sachs.