Detectives discover apparent suicide

Detectives from the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office discovered the apparent suicide of a Sisters man on Sunday, October 10.

Friends identified the man as Donald Sailer Sullivan, widely known in Sisters as "Sully."

According to sheriff's office reports, deputies received a cell phone call from the Sisters resident at about 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, instructing them to respond to a house in town.

There, the caller allegedly said, they would find directions to a suicide that would occur within five miles of the city. The caller hung up and attempts to call back went unanswered, the sheriff's office reports.

Sheriff's deputies and officers from the Black Butte Ranch Police Department responded to the address given by the caller and reportedly found detailed directions to a location south of Sisters off Three Creek Road.

Deputies responded to the specified spot and found the body of the Sisters resident.

According to sheriff's office reports, the man appeared to have died from a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Detectives responded and took on the investigation.