A woman driving on a highway in Virginia was killed Saturday when a 12-year-old boy jumped off an overpass and landed on her car in a suicide attempt.
via NYDN:
The unidentified jumper fell from above I-66 in Fairfax County around 4:15 p.m., striking the driver’s side of Marisa Harris’s Ford Escape, according to Virginia State Police.
Harris, a 22-year-old from Maryland, was pronounced dead at the scene after her boyfriend, who was in the passenger’s seat and remained uninjured, took control of the car and steered it to safety.
The boy is being treated for life-threatening injuries, and police said they are investigating the jump as a suicide attempt.
Harris’s mother told WUSA that her daughter was studying to help children who are battling depression. She said that it was “ironic” that Harris died when a boy she could have helped allegedly tried to take his own life.
The mother told the station that Harris had graduated summa cum laude from Towson University and was studying at a graduate mental health counseling program at Marymount University.
This is a sad story all-around. Throw a prayer up for all parties involved.
