After more than two hours of talking to a woman threatening to jump from an overpass, emergency responders on Wednesday rescued her and took her into custody apparently unharmed. Manning the end of a fire engine ladder extended to the woman, Texarkana Texas Fire Department Capt. Lucas Shelton managed to grab her and hold on despite her struggling, ending the incident that began shortly before 9 a.m. on the U.S. Highway 71 overpass above East Broad Street.
The woman stood on the concrete barrier wall of the overpass, outside a metal fence to which she clung as she moved back and forth and spoke to police negotiators on the other side of the fence.
At the beginning of the incident, a Texarkana Arkansas Fire Department engine's ladder was extended to the overpass and firefighters waited to help the woman down.