Two Leap to Death on Freeways
Within a two-hour period this morning, two men leaped to their deaths from freeway overpasses in Glendale and downtown Los Angeles, authorities said.
The first incident occurred at 7:40 a.m. when an elderly man leaped from the Glendale Avenue overcrossing onto the westbound Ventura Freeway. Glendale Police Sgt. Dean Durand said both fast lanes of the 134 Freeway were closed until 9:30 a.m. as authorities investigated the first suicide. Eight minutes after that freeway was opened, a man believed to be in his mid-40s plunged from the Sixth Street bridge onto the northbound Harbor Freeway.
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