The good Samaritan, a former U.S. Marine, was standing with a friend when he saw the woman jump. He lunged towards the plummeting woman and broke her fall, leaving both of them hospitalized.
A 61-year-old man was seriously hurt after he tried to catch a distraught woman who jumped from the upper deck of a California stadium after a football game on Sunday, cops said.
The good Samaritan — identified only as a former U.S. Marine from Stockton — was standing outside Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum with a friend after the Raiders game when the woman leaped from the third tier about 4:30 p.m., KTVU-TV reported.
The man fearlessly lunged toward the woman’s plummeting body and broke her fall, leaving her critically injured.
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Other witnesses said they tried to stop the woman from apparently jumping off the upper deck of an Oakland stadium on Sunday.
“Very heroically, he tried to catch her, so he got injured in the process,” Sgt. J.D. Nelson of the Alameda County Sheriff's Department told the news station.
“It's sad and tragic,” Nelson said. “Your heart reaches out to both people, the woman who jumped and the man who very heroically tried to save her. You always wonder, ‘Why, why would you do that?’”
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Police block the scene where a man tried to catch a woman who jumped from the upper deck of a stadium.
One witness said he tried to stop the woman, believed to be in her 20s, when he saw her moving toward the ledge about 50 feet from the ground.
“I yelled at her, ‘Don’t do it! Please don’t do it!’” one witness, Ron Brown, told KTVU-TV.
