Man jumps from Venetian pedestrian bridge

By Kimberly De La Cruz Las Vegas Review-Journal

9 years ago

Venetian hotel-casino security and Las Vegas police investigate the scene of a suicidal man with razor blades who jumped off a pedestrian bridge in Las Vegas on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015. Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal

An ambulance leaves the scene where a suicidal man with razor blades jumped off a pedestrian bridge at the Venetian hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015. Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal

A police car near the entrance to the Venetian. Police blocked people from entering or exiting the hotel at the Strip for more than two hours. (Las Vegas Review Journal/Eric Hartley)

Venetian hotel-casino security and Las Vegas police investigate the scene of a suicidal man with razor blades who jumped off a pedestrian bridge in Las Vegas on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015. Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal

Venetian (Las Vegas Review-Journal/Eric Hartley)

Police investigate the scene, at left, where a man jumped from a pedestrian bridge outside the Venetian. (Las Vegas Review-Journal/Eric Hartley)

Security guards stop people from exiting the Venetian late Saturday night after a man jumped from a pedestrian bridge near the Strip. (Las Vegas Review-Journal/Eric Hartley)

A man armed with razor blades jumped from the pedestrian bridge at the Venetian on Las Vegas Boulevard Saturday night, police say.

No one was allowed in or out of the casino, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South, from its Strip entrance for over two hours, while police attempted to talk to the man, who police described as “suicidal.”

Reports that the man was hanging over the bridge came in about 9:20 p.m.

While police were talking to him, “he began to cut himself and jumped off the bridge,” Metro Lt. Tom Melton wrote in a text message to the Review-Journal.

He was taken to an area hospital with unknown injuries, Melton said. After undergoing surgery, he is in stable condition.

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