being on highway 29, coming into green bay, and i see my husband, and he s coming at me, and i do see him go through the grass median. tina is so filled with despair, she keeps driving despite the lights and sirens, completely focused on getting on the bridge. i remember pulling up and pulling over to the side of the bridge and that s it. the efforts of green bay law enforcement stop tina from taking her own life. god reached out of the heavens and kind of said, it s not your time yet. sorry. if trooper bolt had been one step slower, tina says her life would have been over. his whole body is over and he s hanging on with one leg by the barrier and the other leg goes up in the air.
so, you know, microseconds. the call was very, very close. i mean, split second anywhere and she would have, you know, succeeded in what she was trying to do. tina has written a book called why i jumped to help others struggling with depression, and she speaks publicly about her ordeal. i wasn t even thinking of my children. i just was thinking there s no hope. what began on a desperate morning has grown into a supportive friendship for tina and the officers at the bridge. i ve got to meet her children, her husband, and this was probably one of the most positive days in my whole career. coming up a terrible accident. and a shootout in texas. he s shooting at the deputy. when caught on camera: dash
and he s coming at me, and i do see him go through the grass median. tina is so filled with despair, she keeps driving despite the lights and sirens, completely focused on getting to the bridge. i remember pulling up and pulling over to the side of the bridge and that s it. the efforts of green bay law enforcement stop tina from taking her own life. god reached out of the heavens and kind of said, it s not your time yet. sorry. if trooper bolt had been one step slower, tina says her life would have been over. his whole body is over and he s hanging on with one leg by the barrier and the other leg goes up in the air. so, you know, microseconds.
morgan are, able to pull the woman to safety. he s pulling her back up. she was what i have always called giving us the thousand yard stare. to me, that s where someone doesn t see anything going on around them. they re just looking a thousand yards away. the suicidal woman is tina zaun, who is experiencing post-partum depression after the birth of her second child. i remember just being in the house and just feeling numb. just numb. the statistics show that postpartum depression reaches its height 90 days after the birth of a baby, and we almost hit it to the day. we were like three days off. tina s depression is so deep, her husband had asked tina s mother to help look after her. apparently i was talking about jumping. i don t remember talking about jumping. apparently they were trying to keep the car keys away from me. according to tina, on that
july morning, her mother lost patience with her for not being able to get over her depression. it was too much for tina to handle. i snapped, and i lost all hope and i saw the car keys laying over by the refrigerator on the counter. i grabbed them, i ran out the door. but before tina drives away, her 6-year-old daughter pleads with her. she came out of the house and she saw me in the car and she s banging on my window, and she s banging on there saying, mommy, mommy, take me with you, take me with you. and i backed out. i just took the car and i just went as fast as i could. her mother alerts tina s husband his distraught wife has taken off in the car. tina s determined to drive to the bridge, get out and jump. she says she can t recall much of that harrowing journey. the next memory i have is being on highway 29, coming into green bay, and i see my husband,