This story first appeared in Saturday morning’s Daily Post. If you want to see important local news stories first, pick up the Post in the mornings at 1,000 Mid-Peninsula locations.
By the Daily Post staff
A man died in Mountain View yesterday after jumping from the fifth story of a parking garage on the El Camino Hospital campus.
Police officers tried to get the man to come down for several hours, but he ultimately climbed over the railing of the garage connected to the Sobrato building and fell, police said.
Paramedics made extensive life-saving efforts to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The coroner hasn’t yet identified the man.
Suicide is a permanent solution to a short term problem.
what a tragedy … wish they had something to catch him like a trampoline or some mattresses
I heard from people working at El Camino Hospital the man tried to get help at ECH but they turned him away
Wow
Not true!!! Get your facts straight!!
Not true – he told police he would surrender then turned around and jumped – hospital tried to keep him – get your facts strait.
I doubt that is true
I believe it ! and why all the secrecy in not divulging his name like most other news media does ? ..
I saw his name in Wednesday’s Post — Kevin Lee Waddle, 55, a transient. The Post prints stories it doesn’t put online.
i’ve got a feeling “medical specialist” doesn’t read the paper and doesn’t know what’s going on!
why do you think Elcamino Hospital is not alowing his name release its either employee or patient that jumped either way it extremely bad press for elacamino hospital and possible loss of clients but elcamino hospital has deep pockets !!! … if name was to be released !!! it is public news !
Wow thats interesting..This was my brother who died
It is NOT true that he was turned away.
Why couldn’t the cops walk up to him and grab him before he jumped? Or get a fire truck with one of those buckets positioned right below him? Hope we get the whole story so we can prevent this from happening again.
He was not turned away! He had a hospital wrist band on because they were trying to help him!
This person was my 1st cusin. His father is my mother’s brother. I never had a relationship with him except a very short time in the early 1980s. He was still loved , even though he put his sisters, father and extended family through alot of grief with drug use and jail time. His father is in his 80s and hurting. RIP Kevin-