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.
Trooper Paul O’Connor, joined by Sergeant Peter Sennott and Trooper Randy Roach, made contact with and spoke to the man, the Massachusetts State Police stated, while the State Police Marine Unit responded on the Mystic River below the bridge.
Tobin Bridge (Screenshot)
Shortly after 12:30, Trooper O’Connor had talked him into returning over the fence to the road side of the bridge. A photo posted on the Massachusetts Police Department’s Facebook shows O’Connor consoling the distraught man until EMS arrived. He was taken to a Boston hospital for evaluation….