PORTAGE (WKZO AM/FM) — A despondent 18-year-old from Portage is being evaluated at a local hospital after he had to be talked down from a ledge Saturday afternoon.
Portage Public Safety was dispatched to the Oakland Drive overpass at I-94 at about 1:20 p.m. Saturday where the teen was threatening to jump into the traffic below.
Officers say he had climbed the chain link fence surrounding the cement bridge railing and was standing on a small ledge.
Eastbound traffic on the Interstate below was briefly rerouted and the overpass closed while two crisis negotiators from the Metro SWAT team talked him back to safety.
(copy written by John McNeill)
