Suicide bid by 'frustrated' US man

New Delhi: A love triangle, a visit to India, paranoia, a 20-hour wait at the airport and attempted suicide. This is the story of 37-year-old Tyrome Torand Redmon who tried to kill himself by jumping off the departure ramp at IGI airport's Terminal 3 on Thursday.
Redmon, who was slated to fly to the US on Wednesday afternoon, ran out of gate no 8 at 7.15am on Thursday, crossed the road, climbed the railing and remained perched there till 11.30am. A team from the US embassy had to be called in to persuade Redmon to come down.
According to eyewitnesses, he ambled up and down the 2-feet wide ledge, smoked and shouted once in a while before he was persuaded to come down. "Officials managed to get near him on several occasions but he would threaten to jump. Eventually, he came down but a second later climbed up again and jumped. At the last minute, someone caught hold of his leg and pulled him back," said an eyewitness.
Redmon, against whom a case of suicide under Section 309 has been filed, was interrogated by a joint team of Delhi Police, information bureau and the US embassy. Police sources said: "Initially, Redmon was quite shaken up and refused to talk. His passport revealed that he was born in September 1973 and had a 6-month multiple entry visa for India. He arrived in Delhi with an NRI friend, Neelesh Patel, on February 2 and left for Vadodara where Patel has family. Redmon claimed that both of them were interested in one girl and he was scared that Patel would either have him killed or implicated in a police case so he wanted to hurry back to the US. He returned to Delhi with Patel around 11.30pm on Tuesday. Patel later left by train for Vadodara and Redmon went to board his 1.30pm Virgin Atlantic flight to Newark the next day. We have summoned Patel to Delhi verify this story."
10/02/11 Times of India

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Categories: Airports Feb 2011, Foreign Feb 2011