August 26, 2011 (La Mesa)—An 18-year-old woman attempted suicide Wednesday by jumping off the Baltimore bridge and landing in lanes on Interstate 8.
“She is alive,” Lt. Bell with La Mesa Police informed East County Magazine yesterday. The patient remains hospitalized at Sharp Memorial, he added.
Her identity and area of residence have not bee released. La Mesa Police attempted to talk the woman out of jumping, but were unable to prevent her actions.
Heartland Fire & Rescue officials have said that the woman was taken to the hospital with “non-life-threatening injuries.”
“Heartland fire paramedics were in the ambulance that transported her, and she was talking to them,” said Sonny Saghera, a department spokesman, told La Mesa Patch.com.
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