Stamford mall security officers saves man from suicide attempt
STAMFORD CT Nov 1 2017 — Police say mall security guards prevented a man from plunging to his death this week.
Sgt. Jennifer Pinto said a 30-year-old man suffering from autism was in the food court on the seventh level of the Stamford Town Center about 5:30 p.m. Monday when he became agitated. As he and his guardian began leaving the food court, Pinto said the man broke free and tried to throw himself over the railing.
Mall security guards arrived immediately and held the man down until police and medics arrived.
“Had it not been for the quick action of the mall security guards, they would have been responding to a very different call,” a police report of the incident said.
The mall was the site of a similar tragedy in January 2015. A young woman from New Canaan climbed over the railing of an escalator going from the seventh to the ninth floor and landed on the third level. Police at the time called the 25-year-old’s death a suicide.
Stamford Advocate
