24/07/2025
"It was, it was a million reasons that in my brain that I felt like I needed to go."
Kevin Berthia is a survivor.
"For somebody who's in a dark place and we get to that point of wanting to end it and we look down in that water, we see peace," he says. "We see not having to be a burden anymore."
At 22 years old, he went to the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time, with a plan to jump.
A police officer sat and spoke with him for 92 minutes.
"I just was simply going off a voice of compassion and empathy," he recalls.
In Baltimore City last month, officers spoke with a 32-year-old man for sixteen and a half hours before they were able to pull him from a balcony ledge.
It's a vital part of the job officers across the country deal with, including Bel Air Police Corporal Alex McComas.
In a town of around 10,500 people, this year, two people have died by su***de at the Bel Air Parking Garage.
McComas told us how he and his partner saved a life there last November.
