State Trooper Sees Distraught Man About to Jump Off Bridge, Talks Him Down From Suicide, Consoles Him

State Trooper Sees Distraught Man About to Jump Off Bridge, Talks Him Down From Suicide, Consoles Him
Courtesy of Massachusetts State Police
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A Massachusetts state trooper talked a man down from the Tobin Bridge after he threatened to jump and commit suicide last weekend.

On Saturday, June 4, at 12:04 p.m., state troopers and firefighters from Boston and Chelsea responded to a man who had scaled over the barrier of the bridge’s southbound upper deck and was contemplating jumping from the ledge.

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