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Uploaded: Monday, July 30, 2012, 12:35 PM
BART police continue to investigate apparent suicide
Coroner's report says the death was due to 'multiple blunt force trauma'
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by Glenn Wohltmann
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 | The Alameda County Coroner's Office has identified the woman whose body was found in the brush last week near the East Dublin/Pleasanton BART station parking structure as Joy Ann Grammatica, 48, of Livermore.
A coroner's report says the death was due to "multiple blunt force trauma" consistent with a jump from the parking garage.
"At this point, it is being treated as a suicide until we find evidence otherwise," an Alameda County Coroner's Office spokesman said.
BART police Officer Era Jenkins said investigators are searching for possible witnesses and are looking for video footage from the area.
She said BART detectives are considering all possibilities, including the possibility of a jump, as well as an accidental fall or a push from the parking structure.
"We look for witnesses, we ask for witnesses to come forward -- we just look at all possibilities," Jenkins said, explaining that the coroner's office, not BART police, makes the determination of cause of death.
A BART police lieutenant said someone called police about a body in the bushes around 12:30 p.m. July 19. The body was discovered just feet from the large BART parking structure on the Dublin side.
A LinkedIn profile page lists Joy Grammatica as an implementation manager at Verizon in the San Francisco Bay Area and shows she had been with the company since 2006. Grammatica's father, Calvin Marquis, died on July 17, according to an obituary published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.Are you receiving Express, our free daily e-mail edition? See a sample and sign-up for Express.
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Posted by Anonymous, a resident of another community, on Aug 2, 2012 at 8:57 am What? A suicide? Do you have video footage that shows her jumping? Because that is the only way I believe you can justify the statements of investigating it as a "suicide". If so, please let the rest of the world know, because there are a lot of people believing otherwise. She was a happy woman, in love with her partner of 21 years and their 6 year old son, whom she loved with all her heart and soul. Someone please say something in reference to the autopsy results and or surveillance results in the area near the body's discovery.
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Posted by Friend, a resident of another community, on Aug 5, 2012 at 8:02 am I agree with anonymous, Joy was a caring, loving, full of life human being. She loved her family (wife) and her son dearly, as well as her immediate family that she was very very close too. I for one do not believe for one second that she would take her life. Her father passed away on Tuesday and she and her family were just processing the loss, then on Thursday Joy is gone...???? No way, I have known this lady for over 30 years and this goes against everything that she believed in
This article and the others I have read are very one sided, and I am assuming it is because there is so much more information that cannot be released to the public... for example - was she going to work? did she park there? was her jewelry on her person? where is her car? key? etc.... look I realize all these things cannot be disclosed, but in the same token, for me and many of her close friends and family to see "investigating apparent suicide" it is just so devastating ... unknown cause what have probably been the better terminology...
Again, I have confidence and respect in the police department to do their job, but the verbiage is where I get frustrated!
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