The Brief
- Off-duty MPD officer Caleb Demeritt and a Maryland Natural Resources Police officer spent two hours talking a suicidal man down from a bridge over I-68.
- The man agreed to come down after connecting over a shared love of hockey and the Washington Capitals.
- Demeritt’s wife, an off-duty state trooper, helped by calling police to close nearby roads during the rescue.
ALLEGANY COUNTY, Md. – A suicidal Maryland man is alive thanks to the kindness and patience of police officers.
What we know:
On Sunday morning on an overpass above Interstate 68 in Allegany County, off-duty MPD officer Caleb Demeritt was with his family coming back from a wedding when they saw a man preparing to jump off a highway bridge.…