Police Identify Hoover Dam Suicide Jumper As San Jose Woman
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities have identified a San Jose woman whose fatal leap from the Hoover Dam bypass bridge is being called the first known suicide since the arch opened in October 2010.
The Clark County coroner in Las Vegas says 60-year-old Patricia Ann Oakley of San Jose died of multiple injuries in the late Saturday fall almost 900 feet to the Colorado River.
Her body was discovered Sunday by kayakers on the river between Nevada and Arizona.
Federal Bureau of Reclamation spokeswoman Rose Davis said Monday that police were unable to persuade the woman not to jump.
Davis called the suicide the first that federal officials know of at the Michael O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge.
The span carries U.S. Highway 93 between Las Vegas and Phoenix.
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