WINONA, Minn. – Police grabbed a 17-year-old boy who was threatening a suicidal leap from the interstate bridge to Wisconsin. The boy was taken uninjured to the hospital for mental evaluation. This was about 2 p.m. Police had been alerted to the situation by the boy’s family. They said the boy left home upset and said he was going to the bridge to kill himself. As police were converging on the bridge, a Fire Department rescue team arrived at the foot of Washington Street and donned cold-water suits and prepared to launch a rescue vessel into the river. At that moment, police on the bridge radioed that the suicidal boy was on a cot and being loaded into an ambulance.
