A man threatening to jump from the...
A man threatening to jump from the Holiday Inn, 150 E. Angeleno Ave.,
was grabbed by police after spending nearly an hour perched on the
building’s exterior. Steven Shaddix, a 37-year-old Burbank man,
climbed onto the outside ledge of the hotel from the 12th-floor
stairwell at 11:04 a.m., police said. Officers at the scene said
Shaddix, who was depressed about the breakup of a personal
relationship, was delusional and recently ran away from a drug-
rehabilitation center. He climbed along ledges and rails outside the
building to the 16th floor and then to the 20th floor. Police closed
Tujunga Avenue, First Street and Angeleno Avenue for nearly an hour
as negotiators tried to talk to Shaddix. At 11:55 a.m., Shaddix moved
close enough for two officers to grab him and pull him inside. He was
taken to Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar for a psychiatric
evaluation, police said.