Three Suicide Threats Keep First Responders Busy
A series of suicidal individuals kept first responders busy on Tuesday evening.
Just after 5:30 pm, a Columbus psychiatric hospital asked officers to check on a local man who had expressed suicidal and homicidal thoughts.
When officers arrived at the man’s home, he said he had no intention of harming himself or others.
About 10 minutes later, a woman contacted officers saying her husband said he wanted to kill himself and that he had a gun at the home. When police arrived at the home, the man claimed he had no thoughts of suicide.
At 7 pm, officers were called to 7th Street for a report of a man threatening to harm himself and others. The man was reportedly being combative and had already hit someone. Portsmouth Ambulance transported him to the hospital for treatment.