A Bremerton police officer managed to talk a young man off the ledge of the Warren Avenue bridge recently after he had climbed up with thoughts of killing himself, according to a BPD incident report.

Corporal Todd Byers responded to a call about a suicidal man “attempting to jump off the Warren Avenue bridge” just after midnight on September 11, according to the document.

On arrival Byers saw a 21-year-old man standing on the bridge in tears, speaking with an unidentified citizen.

The officer spoke with the young man, who “immediately acknowledged [his] presence,” the report states, and “was cooperative throughout.”

“I asked [the man] to climb back over the railing that separated the walk path from the roadway and speak with me,” Byers wrote. The man “complied and agreed to a transport to a more safe location.”

They drove to a nearby parking lot and talked about the incident, according to the officer.

The young man said he was “stressed as he had too many bills and his job did not provide enough work to pay his bills,” the report states. He was “not sure what came over him,” Byers wrote, “he just started walking toward the bridge with the intention of killing himself.”

The man said he had been “in denial for a long time and he believes he has to deal with some mental health issues,” the report states. He had recently begun seeing a psychiatrist, and his second appointment was scheduled for that day.

He was voluntarily transported to Harrison Medical Center for treatment.

Byers provided details about the incident to a nurse, according to the report, and gave the man his card.