{"id":49428,"date":"2021-04-12T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/man-jumps-to-death-from-freeway-overpass-near-federal-way\/"},"modified":"2021-04-12T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T22:47:00","slug":"man-jumps-to-death-from-freeway-overpass-near-federal-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/man-jumps-to-death-from-freeway-overpass-near-federal-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jumps to death from freeway overpass near Federal Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has died after jumping from a freeway overpass near Federal Way on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>At about 1:30 p.m. April 12, Federal Way officers were dispatched to a possible suicidal man near the South 375th Street overpass of Interstate 5, according to Cmdr. Kurt Schwan of Federal Way police.<\/p>\n<p>As officers were arriving, they witnessed the victim jumping from the bridge onto the freeway below, Schwan said. The victim, a man in his early 20s, died as a result of the injuries sustained.<\/p>\n<p>Officers are on scene with Washington State Patrol troopers conducting the investigation and a portion of southbound I-5 remains closed. The incident has resulted in a 4-mile traffic backup, according to a tweet from Washington State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p><strong>National Suicide Prevention hotline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention LifeLine at 800-273-8255. For those in immediate danger, call 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incident occurred around 1:30 p.m. April 12 near the S. 375th Street overpass. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":49429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-49428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49428"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=49428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}