Watch hero cops save suicidal man Well, here’s a great story. Two Newark police officers are being hailed as heroes after they talked a suicidal man out of killing himself. According to Newark Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose, 5th Precinct Officers Tianna Contreras and Briana Shanklin rescued a 25 year old man from jumping off an overpass at Route 78. The officers were on patrol when they discovered the man over the fence on a Route 78 overpass. He had one hand on the gate and the other was holding a cell phone. The officers got out of their patrol car and the man told them of his intention to jump. In the video, you can see (and hear) the officers calmly talk the man into coming back on the safe side of the fence, talking him out of attempting to kill himself.