Two men jump off the Tobin but survive

By adamg - 9/5/09 - 5:43 pm

Local 718 tweets that two people just jumped off the Tobin; they were fished out of the water.

UPDATE: The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports the two men - one 35, from Revere and one 31, from Bedford, NH - jumped from the bridge's upper deck around 5:30 p.m. Troopers aboard a State Police patrol boat got the two out of the water and brought them to the North End Coast Guard station, from which they were transported to Mass. General. Both suffered serious injuries and have been unable to talk to investigators yet.

State troopers closed the rightmost inbound lane of the upper deck, where a car belonging to a Bradford relative was found. Traffic was slowed but not stopped during the response. Witness statements and additional evidence from the scene suggests that the men jumped in a shared suicide bid, but motive and execution remain under investigation by State Police detectives assigned to [DA Dan] Conley's office.