NY investment manager found dead in Dartmouth

BOSTON—Massachusetts investigators said James S. McDonald, president and chief executive of investment management firm Rockefeller & Co., has died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for the Bristol district attorney’s office, said the 56-year-old McDonald was found in his vehicle at about 3 p.m. Sunday behind a car dealership in Dartmouth.

Miliote said it appears McDonald shot himself but the death is still under investigation.

McDonald was president and chief executive of the New York investment manager since 2001. The company was started in 1882 by John D. Rockefeller to manage the family’s assets.

McDonald, a New York City resident, was also on the board of NYSE Euronext.