Concerned passers-by saved a man from suicide with songs and posters

Passers-by helped the police to dissuade a suicide who wanted to jump from the roof. It took 15 hours to persuade.

Source: Springfield News-Leader

On November 20, it was reported that a man had climbed onto the roof of a house in Springfield and was going to jump off. Since noon, the police have been trying to talk to the man, but he did not make contact.

People gathered in the square, watching the events. By 9 p.m., about a dozen people began to unfurl posters with encouraging inscriptions: "Everything will be Fine", "We Care", "We Need You", and also started singing the Bill Withers song Lean on Me.

Timber Daniel was going to a concert when she saw a man on the roof of the house. "I just couldn't leave this guy," Daniel said. Her poster read: "You're not alone." She had lost several friends who had committed suicide, and she didn't want this guy to do the same.

Amanda Smith said that she saw a message on social networks about a man on the roof and decided to go out to dissuade him from committing a fatal act.

The police blocked the roads leading to the square. The man was standing on the edge of the roof, occasionally shouting at people below and showing them indecent gestures. From time to time he ran from one side of the roof to the other. At about three o'clock in the morning, he still went down a specially set fire escape. Why he climbed onto the roof is unknown.