Kansas City, Mo. ? Parts of Liberty Memorial were closed Tuesday after a man apparently jumped from the 217-foot tower.

The death was being investigated as a suicide because witnesses said the man leapt from the top of the tower at about 2:30 p.m., police spokesman Darin Snapp said.

Officials closed the deck, tower and two upper buildings, but kept the national World War I museum below the deck open, said spokeswoman Denise Rendina.

Rendina said those sections will likely stay closed for a few days.

In 1994, a man jumped to his death from the tower, the only known suicide at the 1926 memorial.