Boyfriend of Slain Woman Leaps Off Bridge to His Death
The boyfriend of a missing woman whose body was found along a remote coastal highway killed himself Tuesday, shortly after the body was identified, by jumping off the Bay Bridge, police said.
The boyfriend, Darion Sable, had told police that Jerusha Briley, 20, disappeared Saturday morning while going to buy groceries for her 23-month-old son, Gabriel.
Sable jumped off an approach to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Tuesday afternoon, San Francisco police spokesman Dewayne Tully said.
Fifteen minutes earlier and five blocks away, Sable had been released on his own recognizance after being jailed overnight on a drug charge, police said.
Sable called police Saturday to report Briley missing, saying she wasn’t the type to leave the house, let alone her toddler, for more than a few hours without letting people know where she was.
Briley’s body was found Monday along California 1 about five miles north of Muir Beach.
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