{"id":14653,"date":"2019-05-05T19:55:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T19:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02819f3af0152458"},"modified":"2025-02-27T02:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T02:50:01","slug":"man-jumps-from-interstate-77-bridge-onto-busy-highway-traffic-stopped-for-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2019\/05\/05\/man-jumps-from-interstate-77-bridge-onto-busy-highway-traffic-stopped-for-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"MAN JUMPS FROM INTERSTATE 77 BRIDGE  ONTO BUSY HIGHWAY TRAFFIC STOPPED FOR HOURS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man identified as Christopher Sledge, 34, jumped from I-77 North near Brookshire Blvd. in Charlotte, NC on May 5, 2019. The situation shut down I-77 North for hours, leaving thousands of vehicles at a stand still. There are indications that some motorists were stuck on the interstate without gas and food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The situation started late night on May 4. A man was at the bridge, threatening suicide, emergency officials were called and tried to talk him down. Chris eventually jumped, killing himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the situation motorists described seeing police vehicles racing down the interstate to get to the scene. Motorists described being tired of waiting in their vehicles for hours at a standstill. Some motorists had kids with them that endured that standstill. Some motorists described being tired, as they were trying to get to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After hours upon hours, the scene was cleared, Interstate 77 North is now open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man commit suicide on Interstate 77 North in Charlotte, NC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[680,20,18,214,237,74,574,674,84,73,45,131,130],"class_list":["post-14653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bridge","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-highway","tag-highway-crash","tag-interstate","tag-jump","tag-man-killed","tag-mental-health","tag-suicide","tag-traffic","tag-west-blvd","tag-west-charlotte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18666,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14653\/revisions\/18666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}