Person leaps to death from freeway overpass in downtown Los Angeles

Someone committed suicide this morning by jumping from a Hollywood (101) Freeway overpass in downtown Los Angeles, authorities said.

(Flickr/provisions)

(Flickr/provisions)

The fatality took place in the area of Broadway and the 101, according to California Highway Patrol Officer Monica Posada.

A watch commander at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Station said someone had jumped and was pronounced dead at the scene.

No information about the person was immediately released.

A SigAlert was issued by the CHP shortly after 12:30 a.m. after all northbound lanes of the freeway were shut down, along with the northbound freeway’s Broadway onramp.

One lane was re-opened within a couple of hours.

Then, all the remaining lanes and the onramp were reopened shortly before 4 a.m., according to the CHP.

 

 

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