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Train Victim Identified as Harleysville Resident

The victim's wife filed a missing person report with Souderton Borough Police.

The victim in Friday's train death in Lansdale has been identified as Daniel G. Guinette, 52, of the 600 block of Hammersmyth Court, Harleysville, Lower Salford Township.

Dr. Walter I. Hofman, Montgomery County coroner, said his wife, Holly, gave the county "more than enough information to identify him."

Hofman said Guinette, a national account manager with Unisource, a marketer and distributor of commercial printing and business imaging papers, died of multiple injuries.

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Hofman confirmed it was a suicide.

"There are circumstances that document why this occurred," Hofman said.

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He said Guinette's wife filed a missing persons report with Souderton Police.

"Lansdale hooked up with that agency late Friday or early Saturday morning. By Saturday morning, we had spoken with the wife and issued a death certificate, and issued the body to a funeral home," Hofman said.

Hofman did not know how or why Guinette was in Lansdale at the time of his death.

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