Officials investigating death at Naperville's Ribfest 
 
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 Naperville Police are investigating an apparent suicide that happened at Naperville's Ribfest celebration Thursday afternoon. 
 
 Ride operators and witnesses, including Paige Shipley of Naperville, said they saw someone dive under the moving Pharaoh's Fury, a boat-shaped ride. 
 
 Shipley said the man was struck three times as the ride swung back and forth before the operator was able to stop it. People on the ride said they heard a thumping sound. 
 
 The DuPage County coroner's office was called to the scene in Knoch Park near downtown, where the man was found about 3 p.m. unresponsive and not breathing, Naperville police Sgt. Bill Davis said. 
 
 Naperville Deputy Chief Brian Cunningham said the ride was functioning properly at the time. 
 
 "It was not a ride malfunction and it doesn't look like it was accidental," Cunningham said. "It's a sad situation." 
 
 Part of the carnival, located at the south end of the festival grounds south of Martin Avenue, was closed. But Don Emery, Ribfest marketing chairman, said nearly all of the carnival rides continued to operate and the area was "essentially open." 
 
 Cunningham said police are continuing to investigate. 
 
 Doug T. Graham contributed to this report ||||| A man was killed by a carnival ride at Naperville’s annual Ribfest in Knoch Park Thursday. NBC Chicago's Lauren Jiggetts reports. (Published Thursday, July 2, 2015) 
 
 A man died Thursday at Naperville’s annual Ribfest after deliberately diving under a moving carnival ride, authorities say. 
 
 Two festival-goers told NBC Chicago they saw the man throw himself under Pharaoh’s Fury, a large popular boat-shaped ride that was swings back and forth. 
 
 Naperville Police say the man was in his early 20s and had attended the festival by himself. 
 
 The ride was moving with approximately 25 people on board at the time. Witnesses said it looked as if he did it on purpose. The man was said to be struck while the boat swung back and forth multiple times before the operator could halt it. 
 
 Both witnesses said those in the area could see the man's body lying facedown after he was killed and the ride stopped, calling the scene "gruesome." 
 
 The incident happened less than three hours after the gates in Knoch Park opened at noon. Emergency crews and the DuPage County coroner's office were immediately called to the scene. 
 
 “I just saw everybody running over to the ride,” recalled festival attendee Rhonda Sandifer. 
 
 As of 6 p.m. a few rides were still closed, but the family event remained open. 
 
 His death was an intentional act, according to police, and there was no foul play or ride malfunction reported.
– Horror at Ribfest: A man was killed by a carnival ride at the Naperville, Ill., festival yesterday and police say it looks like suicide, the Daily Herald reports. Witnesses tell NBC they saw the man in his 20s jump in front of the Pharaoh's Fury—a boat-shaped ride that had around 25 people on board—and he was hit several times as it swung back and forth, leaving a "gruesome" scene. "It was not a ride malfunction and it doesn't look like it was accidental," a police spokesman tells the Herald. "It's a sad situation." Officials say most of the carnival, and the rest of Ribfest, remained open as normal. (A bullet train passenger in Japan picked a horrific suicide method earlier this week.)