Monday, June 15, 2009

Two Officers Save Suicidal Man in Rogers Park

A 20-year-old man holding a razor and threatening to jump from a third-story window ledge Sunday evening was talked down by two police officers, police said. The man was transported to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston.

Two officers answered a call of a person threatening suicide at a courtyard building in the 1600 block of West Estes Avenue about 8:15 p.m. There they found a distraught man outside of the window threatening to jump. The two officers calmed the man and persuaded him to seek help, police said. Source/Read more.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I live right down the street from there and saw it happening last night. At first I just thought the guy was sitting on his window sill smoking...but then the firetruck and ambulance came. The whole situation didn't last very long though.

The North Coast said...

I hope the guy gets the help he needs and can get past whatever it is in his life that is that is making it too painful for him to go on.

I've lost 4 friends to suicide. These people did not know each other, but they all died within 4 years of each other, and we their surviving friends and relatives who loved them are still wondering what we should have done, or how we should have seen that something was more wrong than we thought.

It's just too ugly and somehow unnecessary for someone who still has a chance at life to end this way.

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