"Police save girl livestreaming her suicide attempt on Facebook"

theblaze.com

An apparent suicide attempt by a teenager in Georgia was stopped just in time Tuesday night, when a girl began livestreaming the effort on Facebook.

The disturbing broadcast began streaming into Facebook users’ news feeds at around 7:30 p.m., leading several people to call 911, The Telegraph in Macon, Georgia, reported.

“It’s a good thing that the people watching this called it in,” Bibb County Sheriff David Davis told the newspaper. “Those people did the right thing.”

Numerous people, the sheriff noted, have livestreamed their suicide attempts since the social media network launched its broadcasting option last year. This most recent case, though, was the first for Bibb County.

Roughly 30 minutes after the calls began pouring in, three patrol vehicles and an ambulance headed toward the girl’s house. In addition to several viewers calling 911, Facebook had also reported the incident to law enforcement.

At the start of the video, the teenage girl was discussing her plans to commit suicide before she began consuming pills and putting a bag over her head,  NBC News reported. When someone chooses to broadcast live like that, Bibb County Sargent Linda Howard said, “you’re hoping someone will stop you.”

And thankfully, that’s exactly what happened. When the officers found the teen, who still had a pulse, she was taken to the hospital and was in stable condition on Wednesday.