Crime & Safety
San Clemente Man Back in Hospital After Jump from Window
The man was a mental patient in the hospital.
by Nisha Gutierrez-Jaime
A teenage patient who jumped out of a window last week at Mission Hospital Laguna Beach survived his injuries, the Coastline Pilot reported.
The mental health patient was a 19-year-old San Clemente man, according to the newspaper, who barricaded himself inside his room, smashed a window and jumped out of a second-story window onto a metal platform on Friday morning.
Laguna Beach police and fire responded to the scene and managed to convince the man to help him down from the platform.
The patient suffered minor cuts to his hands.
Read the full story on the Coastline Pilot.
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