MARIETTA, Ga. — Two police officers and another man are being praised for their swift actions that helped save a woman who was having a mental crisis at a Marietta motel.
The Marietta Police Department released body cam video of the incident from Sept. 13 on their Facebook page.
Investigators were called out to Motel 6 along Delk Road after getting calls of a woman who was trying to jump from the fifth floor of the motel.
As the officers walked up the stairwell to the fifth floor, they kept yelling instructions to the woman, but it was clear she was not listening.
Once they got the woman, they quickly grabbed her.
“Officer Hines and Recruit Abkemeier made their way to the woman as quickly as possible, and while her head was turned away from them, they both swiftly grabbed her upper torso. As soon as the woman noticed someone grabbed her, she dropped the weight of her body from her feet which then fell below the lip of the ledge,” police said in the Facebook post.
Investigator said a bystander that they identified as Mr. Bush jumped in to help when he saw the woman drop.
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“Mr. Bush saw this action and jumped in to help the Officers hold the woman up through the railing! Officer Johnson who was not far behind Officers Hines and Abkemeier went to the fourth floor directly under the dangling woman to try to help there if needed,” the post said.
While the woman was trying to be pulled to safety, Officer Johnson noticed that she had hooked her foot through the bottom ledge of the railing. He dislodged her foot and the woman was pulled to safety.
“It is clear that this woman was suffering a mental crisis and in dire need of immediate mental health assistance! Had it not been for the swift actions of Officers and Mr. Bush this woman would not be alive today. KUDOS OFFICERS for taking immediate actions to save her life!” the Facebook post said.
The woman was taken to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital to be checked out and get treatment.
The police department added these resources if you know someone who may need help:
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
- Call 800-273-8255 or text HELLO to 741741
- Call 911
- https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/suicide-prevention
- https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/suicide-prevention
- https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
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