By C1 Staff
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Though officials say inmate rescues happen all the time, one who attempted to commit suicide while incarcerated is thankful staff was present to save his life.
KOAT reports that an inmate who wasn’t feeling well requested to speak with the jail’s psychiatric nurse. As the inmate was released from his cell, the nurse saw something about the inmate’s neck.
The inmate then made a beeline for the stairs, and walked to the second floor railing. He took out bed sheets tied about his neck, tied them to the railing and jumped.
Officer Shayne Flynn didn’t hesitate.
“He said, ‘It happened so quick. I was amazed at how quickly he tied the sheet around the railing,’” Capt. George Doyle said of Flynn.
Flynn cut the bed sheets and both Lt. Larry Grant and Capt. Doyle grabbed the inmate’s legs to keep him from suffocating.
Earlier this year, cameras caught the jail’s doctor helping a female inmate deliver a baby in her cell.