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Rutgers Student Comes to Aid of Harvey Street Jumper
Rutgers psychology major Paige Edelman noticed a man readying himself to jump from the roof of a Harvey Street house and talked to him until police arrived and got him down.
A Rutgers University student packing up for Christmas break could have been witness to a terrible event, but was able to help turn it around for a positive ending.
According to a report on mycentraljersey.com, Paige Edelman, 21, a senior psychology major at Rutgers was packing up her car on the morning of December 23 to go home for Christmas when she saw a man climbing down the roof of a nearby Harvey Street house.
She asked the man if he was OK, and he responded in Spanish that he wanted to kill himself, according to the report.
Edelman enlisted the help of her Spanish-speaking roommate to communicate and called police. The two women continued conversation with the man until authorities were able to talk him down and take him to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, according to the report.
“It was very traumatic and and very scary. It was an oh-my-God moment,” Edelman told mycentraljersey.com. “It was rewarding to know he was OK.”
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