By Daily Press staff
Santa Monica police officers talked a homeless man known only as Tim out of jumping off the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday afternoon.
Tim stood on the edge of the cliff at Arizona Avenue and Ocean Avenue for at least an hour before police got there, witnesses said. After arriving, police cleared and taped off the area 50 feet around the scene It took officers an additional half-hour to talk Tim into leaving the edge of the cliff.
Tim was described as “usually upbeat” by his friends who were present on Tuesday.
As he was being taken into police custody, three friends chanted “We love you Tim.”
It was not known what drove him to attempt suicide.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 19, 2003. Read the original PDF.