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LONDON – A 39-year-old JPMorgan Chase employee was killed on Tuesday morning when he fell from the roof of the investment bank’s office tower in Canary Wharf.

The man was a vice president in the bank’s information technology operations and had worked at the firm since 2004.

The police said they were called to 25 Bank Street, the home of JPMorgan’s investment banking offices, at 8:02 a.m. to investigate reports by office workers of a man having fallen from the 500-foot building.

“We are deeply saddened to have lost a member of the J.P. Morgan family,” a JPMorgan spokeswoman said. “Our thoughts and sympathy are with his family and his friends.”

The incident happened at the height of rush hour, when thousands of commuters were emerging from the Heron Quays station of the Docklands Light Rail, which is next to JPMorgan’s offices, and the nearby Canary Wharf stop of the London Underground.

The man landed on a ninth floor roof and was pronounced dead at the scene, the police said. The incident is not being treated as suspicious at this time and no arrests have been made, the police said.

The London Ambulance Service and a medical team from the London Air Ambulance both responded to the scene. “Sadly, one patient, a man in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene,” the London Ambulance Service said.

The building, which opened in 2003, served as the European headquarters of Lehman Brothers before its bankruptcy in 2008. The defunct energy trading company Enron, at one point, was in negotiations to occupy the building before the company’s insolvency in 2001.

JPMorgan moved its investment bank into the building in 2010.