A potential suicide was averted late Friday evening in Council Bluffs, when Police Officers were able to talk a man down from a side of the Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge, that links Council Bluffs to Omaha.

Officers with the Omaha and Council Bluffs Police Departments were dispatched to Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge at around 7:47-p.m. Once the suicidal subject was talked away from the side of the bridge, he was escorted to safety.

Council Bluffs officers were able to take the subject to a local hospital for further evaluation. It’s the second time this past week a suicide was prevented. Tuesday night, Ray’Veontae Harris was live streaming on his phone during his walk, when he spotted a young woman in crisis, leaning over the edge of the bridge

The 20-year-old spoke with the woman and slowly helped her down so she wouldn’t fall. She thanked him later for saving her life.