Man threatens to hang himself in rural area, Hamlin WV
Medical EmergencyOfficers responded to a report of a man on Patters Run Road near Hamlin who called a suicide hotline and said he planned to hang himself. Dispatchers had only coordinates but could not reach his phone number. They searched the area but found no recent information or contact with the individual.
Audio|Source: Lincoln County Public Safety
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Transcript:
00:00
It was called in here by Metro.
00:03
I advise they received some information about a male attempting to commit suicide, or he called a suicide hotline and told him some things that he was thinking about doing.
00:16
They were going to go up there to that record.
00:24
I don't know if you can call down on my cell phone or not, just give me the details of this phone.
00:34
I could not hear you on the phone, no.
00:38
Are you asking about the Patters Run call or the call I just took regarding Burger Team's Little General over and hanging on?
00:46
What's going on at Patterns Creek and the way you got a little general?
00:53
The first run was what was given us by Metro.
00:56
They, by some time ago, they took a call from a suicide hotline that advised this mail called them and advised that he had suicidal thoughts of hanging himself break.
01:09
Damn, work with it.
01:12
The dispatcher from Metro Revizal, all they were given was coordinates.
01:17
We put that in, it came between the only two residences on Patters Run.
01:23
It runs off of Hamlin Road Route 34 of race.
01:30
I have an employee at the gas station, Burger King,
01:36
here in Hamlin.
01:38
She's advising that a female called her on the phone and on Facebook harassing her, making harassing comments.
01:46
And then a random female stopped in there and mentioned that girl's name after asking something.
01:51
She thinks she's harassing her to.
01:53
None of them are there at this moment.
01:56
Damn, where I'll be in after that call out on Hamilton, her.
02:02
Yes.
02:09
(number withheld).
02:10
(number withheld).
02:15
Has any family been notified to possibly check on that individual?
02:24
All we have is the name and a phone number.
02:26
We can't find any other information.
02:28
We've tried that number.
02:29
It advises calls unable to go through at this time of recording.
02:34
We've looked up everything on that road.
02:36
You can't find anything regarding this individual.
02:39
There's no recent call from that roadway at all in the last eight years.
02:48
Is the individual that called, is it from a landline or a cell?
02:56
It appears to be a cell phone the number we were provided by the Metro dispatcher that spoke to the suicide hotline.
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Hamlin, WV 25523
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