User blog comment:EagleEye19/Who is Erudito?/@comment-89.27.67.76-20101119173214/@comment-1703264-20101120055036

That is a possibility. 16 did mention Lucy being in the room with and stopped him from killing himself. Another possibility is that he committed suicide, Abstergo dumped his body, Assassins found him, and used the shroud on him.