KLTV 7 News
By Summer Dashe
Posted: Sep 16, 2014
Dash camera video shows suicidal man sitting with police officers. (Source: Whitehouse Police Department)
WHITEHOUSE, TX (KLTV) - Whitehouse Police Department is changing its policy after an officer saved a veteran's life.
On Sept. 4, police received a call about a man bleeding on the side of the road in Smith County. A fisherman saw the man walking near Lake Tyler, covered in blood. When police arrived, the man told officers he was an Iraq war veteran and that he wanted to end his life.
"Where's your knife? How'd you get hurt?" Sgt. Shawn Johnson, with WPD, can be heard saying in a dash-camera video.
Sgt. Johnson walked up and the man explained he was a veteran and had intentionally cut his wrist.
"He told us that he was an army vet, that he served a couple tours in Iraq and that was part of his wanting to die," Johnson explained.
On the video, the officers can be heard talking with the man and asking him why he wanted to end his life. When he tells them he feels nobody cares about him they respond, "We care. If we didn't care we wouldn't be here, right?"
He had used a broken beer bottle to cut himself and was losing a lot of blood.
"(We) went and spoke with him and as I was talking with him, he moved his arm and then I could actually see blood start, you know, coming out rather quickly," Johnson recalled.
Minutes went by as they, along with Tyler police officers, awaited EMS.
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