Woman clings to stranger, prevents him from jumping off bridge
620 WTMJ Wisconsin Radio
By Charles Benson
CREATED APR. 28, 2014
MILWAUKEE -- Hanging on for dear life, a passer-by saves a man dangling over I-94 on the side of a Milwaukee Bridge near Miller Park.
It was an heroic team effort by police at the Veterans Administration Hospital who pulled the distraught man to safety on Sunday. But this rescue might not have been possible without the compassion and patience of a woman determined not to let the man jump.
"He was hanging on with one hand on the bar and one hand on this side," said Jill Hewitt.
Hewitt approached the man standing on a tiny ledge on the wrong side of the fence and used every ounce of energy in her four foot eleven frame to hold onto him.
"I told him I wouldn't let him go," said Hewitt. "God meant for you not to take your own life.
It was not his time or choice to do that."
She estimates she talked for several minutes, told him she loved him and about the challenges she faced in her own life. But the man never said why he wanted to jump.
"His response typically was, No let me go. I want to die. I want to die!"
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