Seattle Police have posted information on the apparent suicide that shut down Interstate 5 at Northgate this morning.
The incident occurred at the Northeast 92nd Street overpass that leads to North Seattle College.
Police were forced to shut-down all lanes of northbound I-5 near Northgate during the Friday morning commute for a suicide investigation.
Both Washington State Patrol and Seattle Police began receiving numerous reports of collisions after a person jumped from the NE 92nd Street overpass to I-5 below just before 6 A.M. Seattle Police and WSP Troopers stopped all traffic on northbound I-5 to facilitate the investigation. The adult woman who jumped was killed instantly.
No motorists were injured and one car sustained minor damage in the collision.
The King County Medical Examiner responded to the scene to investigate. The collision investigation and body recovery was complicated by the fact that the collision site spanned approximately 100 yards.
WSP troopers provided assistance by diverting traffic until all lanes were reopened around 8 a.m.
Police are also searching for a burglary suspect who fled officers at Northgate Mall earlier this week. That information is here.
Re: Meadows-Mittenen
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Felon-to-be-sentenced-released-after-weekend-2146289.php#photo-1561700
Meadows-Mittenen was spotted last week in Magnolia, casing houses. He apparently tried to talk his way into someone’s home by posing as someone new to the neighborhood. He didn’t get in because that particular resident was savvy to the fact that no houses on that street had changed ownership and he pinged as not right to her.
My deepest sympathy for family and friends of the deceased and anyone that had to witness such a traumatic event. RIP dear one.
His name is MeadowS-Mittenen.
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This is reminiscent of another suicide, at the same place, back in August of 2011. I was out on a walk about, and started to walk back home, going east on that overpass. That’s when I noticed a body down on the freeway, in the northbound lanes.
As I got further onto the bridge, I saw a distraught guy saying, “I’ve never seen anything like it.” As I got closer, and someone comforted him, he explained that he’d been driving by and saw the woman starting to jump; he stopped his car and got out and grabbed her; but she fought him off and did what she’d intended.
Like most people, I stood around in shock, for about 45 minutes – how long it took for the body to be removed. (It was covered up, well before that.) A woman who’d been on the other side of the overpass, told me how she’d seen the woman who’d jumped, get into an argument with a man, who then walked away. Then, the woman went directly to the bridge.
I wondered then, and still do now, what went on in that conversation. Maybe the woman was living with that man and he demanded she move? My hunch is it was a romance gone bad.
The following weekend, I went to the church I attend, St. Andrews Episcopal and lit a candle for the woman. I asked a friend, Fr. Terry Steig, if he believed that suicides were allowed into heaven. “Of course,” he replied. “I believe in a merciful God.”
I sure hope he’s correct. That woman needed mercy, more than anything. If she didn’t get it in this life, I hope she found it on the other side.
“The collision investigation and body recovery was complicated by the fact that the collision site spanned approximately 100 yards.”
Ew.