Officers went to the squad car to give her a bottle of water, but as they approached, Williams asked for the water to be thrown to her.Īs officers attempted to give her the water bottle, she jumped off the rail of the bridge into the Wolf River. Police say the woman told officers her name is Chelsey Williams and said she wanted something to drink. Some officers left the shooting scene to investigate the report and spotted her. Alton firefighters scramble to pull Marine 1, the city’s fire and rescue boat, to the dock Wednesday under the Clark Bridge after recovering a subject, believed to be a woman, who jumped 75 feet. Memphis Police said while working a shooting call in the 1400 block of Thomas, officers were flagged down and told a woman left her vehicle and was walking down the middle of the street naked. MPD said she was located near Stelle and Second, and she is in non-critical condition. Memphis Police found the woman who they say jumped off a bridge into the Wolf River on Sunday afternoon. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The need for safety netting is similar, he said.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. When people were killed because of traffic collisions on the bridge involving oncoming traffic, a barrier was installed in the center median. “We can’t afford to allow any more lives to be lost.” “Not doing anything is not an option,” DiPalma said.
Then there would be the costs for the other two bridges. He estimates such netting on about 1 ½ miles of the Pell Bridge, which would exclude beginning sections of the bridge on both sides, could be done for about $4 million. More: Body of man who jumped from the Newport Pell Bridge is locatedĭiPalma said Friday the bill has been held until the Senate receives better estimates on the costs of safety netting, as well as updated numbers on the numbers of suicides that have occurred on the bridges.įlorida is installing steel netting along a roughly mile-and-a-half stretch of the Sunshine Skyway bridge in Tampa Bay and officials expect the $3.4 million project to be completed by summer, according to a March 10 Tampa Bay Times article forwarded by DiPalma. The Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee held a hearing March 25 on the bill sponsored by sponsored by Newport County legislators Louis DiPalma, D-Middletown, Dawn Euer, D-Newport, Walter Felag, D-Bristol, and James Seveney, D-Portsmouth. M5 northbound junction 3 for Quinton was closed following a police incident (Image: Motorway Cameras) The disovery of a womans body on the side of a motorway is not being treated as suspicious. Legislation calling for the installation of safety barriers or safety netting on the three bridges is under consideration in both the state Senate and House of Representatives. 20, 2018, there were 27 suicide deaths on the Pell Bridge, Mount Hope Bridge, and Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge, according to the Rhode Island Department of Health’s office of state medical examiners. His body was recovered about two hours later.įrom Jan. The report of a bridge jumper this week came just six days after a 30-year-old New Jersey man jumped from the center span of the Pell Bridge on March 26. More: Lawmakers want barriers erected on three Newport County bridges to deter suicide attemptsĪ state trooper at the Wickford Barracks said the matter is under investigation by State Police and no other information is being released at this time. Newport Deputy Fire Chief Donald Gunning confirmed his department's participation in the search. The state Department of Environmental Management and the Narragansett Bay Marine Task Force that includes the Newport Fire Department’s fire boat and those of multiple other agencies around the bay also participated in the search, Cipriani said.
The latest real-time news updates and headlines on police. Stay on top of latest police news stories and find out what just happened, what is going on with police. A Coast Guard helicopter also responded, he said. Live police news coverage of developments with the latest updates. and the Castle Hill station sent out its 45-foot vessel to search the waters under the bridge. NEWPORT – After receiving a report that someone had jumped from the Newport Pell Bridge Thursday afternoon, the Coast Guard and other agencies conducted an eight-hour search in the waters of Narragansett Bay but did not locate a body.Ĭoast Guard Seamen Nicholas Cipriani said the call came in around 2:30 p.m.
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