Texas officer, truck driver help save suicidal teen from jump off bridge
By: Jay Jordan, Houston Chronicle
ARLINGTON, Texas — A truck driver minding his own business might have saved the life of a suicidal teenager in dramatic video released by police in North Texas.
On Wednesday morning, police in Arlington received a 911 call reporting that a teenage boy was threatening to jump off an overpass along Interstate 20 near Kelly Elliot Road, the police department said in a Facebook post. When officers arrived, they found the teen straddling the overpass barriers threatening to jump, police said.
Acting quickly, Arlington Police Department Corporal Deric Sheriff flagged down a passing trucker on the highway and enlisted him to park underneath the overpass, so if the teen were to jump, he would land on the trailer.
