The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is calling an incident at the side of the road along State Road 60 East near Kissimmee Shores Road shortly after 1 p.m. July 28 an apparent suicide.
The incident stopped traffic in both directions of SR 60 for more than an hour. By 2:46 p.m. traffic was able to move again in all but one lane of the westbound direction of the highway.
At 1:06 p.m. the sheriff’s office emergency call center “received a 911 call from a man who was clearly suicidal based on the statements he was making,” a sheriff’s public information officer said in an email exchange with a Ledger reporter…