The Goodness of America
Officers Save Suicidal Woman
La Porte, Indiana, police officers Ryan Helmecy and Taylor Atkinson were honored for saving the life of a suicidal woman who threatened to jump from the U.S. 35 overpass on August 28.
On that fateful day, the woman was at the top of a chain-link security fence along the edge of the overpass while a bystander pleaded with her not to jump. The woman had made her way down the other side of the fence by the time Helmecy arrived. He rushed over, jumped on top of the fence, and grabbed the hysterical woman by the arm. He held on to her until Officer Atkinson was able to climb to the other side of the fence and grab hold of the woman. He did not let her go until she was rescued via the bucket on a fire truck below the overpass.
Police Chief Paul Brettin said the officers refused to let the woman go, despite her pleas for them to do that.
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