A DeKalb man was found dead Tuesday in a running car in his closed garage in the second apparent suicide of its kind in the past six days.

DeKalb Police Detective Jim Kayes said the death of Wright George, 79, 620 S. Second St., was an apparent suicide. George was found sitting in a running car in his garage by a friend at 3:40 p.m., Kayes said. The garage door was closed, he said.

An employee of the DeKalb County Coroner’s office said George was pronounced dead at 4 p.m. by Deputy Coroner William Engstrom. An investigation of George’s death is being conducted by DeKalb County Coroner Dennis Miller and the DeKalb Police Department, the employee said. An autopsy had not been performed as of Wednesday afternoon.

Last Friday, another DeKalb man was found dead by his father in a running car in the family garage. Kayes said the death of Kevin Hudson, 22, 677 Haish Blvd., also was an apparent suicide.

Kevin’s father, Donald Hudson, found him in a closed garage with two cars which both were running. The car Kevin was found in was running, and the second car was believed to have stopped running on its own.

The Police Department and Dennis Miller are investigating Hudson’s death, and a coroner’s inquest is expected in three weeks. The cause of Hudson’s death has not been determined by the coroner’s office, the employee at the coroner’s office said.

In 1986 there were five suicides, all of them males, a coroner’s office report stated. Among them, only one was caused by carbon monoxide poisoning. Three suicides were caused by hanging, and one was caused by a gunshot wound, the report stated.

The report stated the total number of suicides in that time period reached 48. Only 17 percent of suicide deaths between December 1980 and August 1986 were caused by carbon monoxide poisoning, the report stated.

The total number of deaths that were investigated by the coroner’s office reached 1,525 in the past six years, the report stated.