CULPEPER STAR-EXPONENT STAFF
In a high stress matter of life and death, many came together Sunday afternoon in downtown Culpeper to save a suicidal, 50-year-old man who climbed to the top of a 250-feet-tall cell tower to end his life.
Multiple calls came into Culpeper County E911 starting around 12:18 p.m. on May 2 about a male subject climbing a cellphone tower at the Verizon building in the 600-block of Old Brandy Road at East Piedmont Street.
The man was yelling suicidal statements as he climbed the tower, according to a news release Monday morning from Culpeper Police Department spokeswoman Officer Julia Cole.
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