SAN JOSE — The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library at San Jose State University closed Wednesday after an apparent suicide inside the eight-story building.

Some people in the library saw the person, a male who was not a student or employee, fall from an upper level just before 11 a.m., university President Mary Papazian said in a letter to the campus community.

University police indicated all evidence points to the death as a suicide, she said. The library was evacuated and closed shortly after the death.

“Our thoughts are also with the library staff, patrons and others who witnessed this tragedy,” Papazian said. “We are closely collaborating with our partners from the City of San Jose to ensure that library staff, students and others have access to counseling and other forms of emotional support.”

Papazian also said: “Our hearts go out to the decedent, his family and friends.”

The university set up temporary study spaces in Ballrooms B and C on the second floor of the Diaz Compean Student Union. The library reopened at 8 a.m. Thursday.

A suicide occurred at the library in January 2016, when a man fell to his death from the 6th floor. He was not a member of the campus community.