UC Berkeley’s “Naked Guy,” 33, jail suicide

Posted: Saturday, May 20th, 2006 3:42 pm

SAN JOSE, California (AP) — The former college student known as the “Naked Guy,” who gained notoriety in the early 1990s for attending class in the buff, has died in jail, authorities said.

Andrew Martinez, 33, whose stripped-down strolls at the University of California, Berkeley, got him expelled and prompted the city to adopt a strict anti-nudity ordinance, was found unconscious Thursday in a Santa Clara County jail, said jail spokesman Mark Cursi. …

He had been in custody since January 10 on charges of battery and assault with a deadly weapon, authorities said. … Read full obituary